Neriene emphana
Creators: name: Li, Jian Yong
name: Liu, Jie
name: Chen, Jian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Neriene
Neriene emphana

description: Neriene emphana (Walckenaer, 1841)
Figs 27–29, 68 A–B, 69
Linyphia emphana Walckenaer, 1841: 246 (Df); Dahl, 1883: 38 (Dm); Becker, 1896: 23, pl. 3, f. 2 (mf); Bösenberg, 1901: 68, pl. 5, f. 69 (mf); Fedotov, 1912a: 70, f. 11 (f); Simon, 1929: 631, 743, f. 962–964 (mf); Saito, 1934b: 305, pl. 15, f. 56 (f); Blauvelt, 1936: 118, pl. 5, f. 36, pl. 6, f. 39–42 (m); Paik, 1957: 43, f. 2–3 (f); Saito, 1959: 77, f. 73a–g (mf); Yaginuma, 1957a: 54, f. 11 (f); Yaginuma, 1960: 41, f. 40.7 (f); Ono, Matsuda & Saito, 2009: 339, f. 1198–1206 (mf); Yaginuma, 1971: 41, f. 40.7 (f); Tyschchenko, 1971: 228, f. 738 (f); Miller, 1971: 220, pl. XLII, f. 11–13 (mf); Yaginuma, 1986: 65, f. 34.6 (mf); Chikuni, 1989b: 52, f. 25 (mf); Mcheidze, 1997: 300, f. 690–692 (f).
Linyphia scalarifera Menge, 1866: 110, pl. 19, f. 37 (Dm).
Prolinyphia emphana Homann, 1952: 349 (Tmf from Linyphia); Wiehle, 1956: 302, f. 493–499 (mf); Oi, 1960a: 221, f. 347– 351 (mf); Paik, 1965a: 66, f. 17–19 (mf).
Linyphia marginata Prószyński, 1961: 129, f. 3–4 (mf, misidentified).
Neriene emphana van Helsdingen, 1969: 210, f. 11–12, 294–304 (mf); Palmgren, 1975: 82, f. 20:1–4 (mf); Paik, 1978e: 268, f. 115.1–5 (mf); Hu, 1984: 182, f. 191.1–3 (mf); Zhu & Shi, 1985: 108, f. 94a–f (mf); Song, 1987: 138, f. 99 (mf); Zhang, 1987: 116, f. 96.1–3 (mf); Feng, 1990: 125, f. 100.1–6 (mf); Tanasevitch, 1990: 98, f. 26.29–30, 27.11 (f); Chen & Gao, 1990: 101, f. 127a–b (mf); Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 222, f. 598 (mf); Song, Zhu & Li, 1993: 865, f. 24A–F (mf); Roberts, 1995: 368, f. (mf); Roberts, 1998: 379, f. (mf); Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 193, f. 12I, 109F–G, N–O (mf); Kim & Kim, 2000b: 18, f. 5A–F (mf); Hu, 2001: 526, f. 351.1–5 (mf); Song, Zhu & Chen, 2001: 145, f. 80A–D (mf); Namkung, 2002: 148, f. 17.1a–b (mf); Dawson & Merrett, 2002: 295, f. 1–4 (mf); Kim & Cho, 2002: 283, f. 709–714 (m); Yoo & Kim, 2002a: 26, f. 27 (m); Namkung, 2003: 150, f. 17.1a–b (mf); Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 137, f. 88A–D (mf); Yin et al., 2012: 524, f. 247a–e (mf).
Material examined. Hubei: Luotian County, Tiantangzai national forest Park, 31.11°N, 115.73°E, 946m, 23–27 June 2009, X. Xu & H.J. Xie leg., 3MM and 68FF (CBEE); Hainan: Bawangling Mountain National Nature Reserve, 19.13°N, 109.10°E, 300m, 21 October 2009, H. Yu leg., 9MM and 2MM (CBEE).
Diagnosis: This species is similar to N. compta and N.nitens in having simple paracymbium without branches distally, distal suprategular apophysis with hook-shaped tip of dorsal arm and membranous ventral tip, and the large semicircular atrium opening, but can be distinguished from them by the following characters: 1, the terminal apophysis long, slender, with moderately membranous tip in N. emphana, but short, wide, with strongly chitinous tip in N. compta and N.nitens; 2, the distal blunt chitinous apical lobe significantly larger than the spermduct-tooth in N. emphana, but almost same in N. compta and N.nitens; 3, the semicircular opening of atrium with anterior margin notched mesally in N. emphana, but not in N. compta and N.nitens (Figs 27–28, 29 C–E, 21–22, 23C–E, 47– 48, 49C–E).
Description: See Van Helsdingen (1969).
Distribution: China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Niaoning, Neimenggu, Shanxi, Beijing, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hainan, Yunnan, Hebei); Europe, Russia, North Korea, Japan (Fig. 69).
description: Published as part of Li, Jian Yong, Liu, Jie & Chen, Jian, 2018, A review of some Neriene spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from China, pp. 1-90 in Zootaxa 4513 (1) on pages 26-27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4513.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2607658