Apneumonella dongxing Yang, Zhao & Tong 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Yang, Kuiwen
name: Zhao, Huifeng
name: Bai, Shuchong
name: Tong, Yanfeng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Telemidae
Apneumonella
Apneumonella dongxing

description: Apneumonella dongxing Yang, Zhao & Tong sp. nov.
Figs 1–3
Type material. Holotype: Male (SYNU-532), Guangdong Province, Heyuan City, Xinhuilong Town, Dongxing Village, Wanlvgu Resort Area, 23°42′51″N, 114°38′9″E, elevation 180 m, W. Cheng, Y. Huang, K. Yang and T. Jiang leg., 23 April 2021. Paratypes: 2 females (SYNU-533-534), same data as holotype.
Etymology. The specific name is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality.
Diagnosis. The new species is similar to Apneumonella taitatavetaensis Zhao & Li, 2017 in the belt-shaped tibial glands and the bulbal tegular apophysis, but the male can be distinguished by lacking the dorsal mark on the abdomen (see Fig. 1A, vs with a yellow spot, see Song et al. 2017: fig. 4A) and the shape of the bulbal tegular apophysis, which consist of a broad leaf-shaped and a needle leaf-shaped lobes (Fig. 2A, B, E, vs finger-shaped, see Song et al. 2017: figs 5A, C), and the female by lacking the hump on the abdomen (Fig. 3A, vs with two anterior hump on the abdomen, see Song et al. 2017: fig. 6A) and the cochlear-shaped receptacle (Fig. 3E, vs baglike, see Song et al. 2017: fig. 6C).
Description. Male (Holotype). Habitus as in Fig. 1A–C. Total length 0.85. Carapace 0.42 long, 0.39 wide. Abdomen 0.48 long, 0.35 wide. Carapace yellowish brown, with dark spots on the mid-thoracic area. Six eyes, well-developed, encircled by black rings. Chelicerae light brown, fang groove with 2 large teeth and 3 small denticles on promargin and several small denticles on retromargin (Fig. 1G, H). Labium and endites yellowish brown. Sternum oval, dark brown. Legs yellowish. Palp and leg measurements: palp 0.45 (0.12, 0.06, 0.11, 0.16); I - (0.58, 0.12, 0.49, 0.30, -); II 1.63 (0.48, 0.12, 0.43, 0.29, 0.31); III 1.29 (0.39, 0.10, 0.35, 0.21, 0.24); IV 1.52 (0.45, 0.11, 0.41, 0.28, 0.27). Leg formula: I-IIIV-III. Tibial glands distinct and belt-shaped (Fig. 2D, F). Abdomen grayish, ventral surface with yellow, circle-shaped marks (Fig. 1B).
Palp (Figs 1D–F, 2A–C, E): tibia 1.83 times longer than patella, cymbium 1.45 times longer than tibia, 1. 33 times longer than femur; cymbial apophysis (Ca) dark brown and cone-shaped; bulb ovoid, with a broad leaf-shaped and a needle leaf-shaped tegular apophysis (Ba) on its middle-upper part; embolus (Em) triangular, short, basally with a round membranous outgrowth (Ro).
Female. Similar to males in general features. Habitus as in Fig. 3A–C. Total length 0.99. Carapace 0.41 long, 0.37 wide. Abdomen 0.64 long, 0.57 wide. Leg measurements: I - (0.59, -, -, -, -); II 1.77 (0.53, 0.11, 0.48, 0.31, 0.34); III 1.21 (0.35, 0.10, 0.27, 0.26, 0.23); IV 1.53 (0.49, 0.11, 0.39, 0.26, 0.28). Receptacle membranous, cochlear-shaped in lateral view.
Distribution. Known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of Yang, Kuiwen, Zhao, Huifeng, Bai, Shuchong & Tong, Yanfeng, 2023, A new species of the genus Apneumonella Fage, 1921 (Araneae, Telemidae) from Guangdong Province, China, pp. 392-396 in Zootaxa 5256 (4) on pages 393-395, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5256.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/7755254