Speocera bachma Li &amp; Li 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Tong, Yanfeng
name: Li, Fengyuan
name: Song, Yang
name: Chen, Haifeng
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Ochyroceratidae
Speocera
Speocera bachma

description: <i>Speocera bachma</i> Li &amp; Li sp. nov. (Figs 5–6, 55C) Material examined. Holotype &amp;male; (IZCAS), Vietnam, Thua Thien Hue Province, Bach Ma National Park, Da Dung Village (16º13.203′N, 107º52.944′E), elev. 69 m, 26.VIII.2015, leg. Q. Zhao, Y. Li &amp; Z. Chen. Paratypes 2&amp;male; 3&amp;female; (IZCAS), same data as holotype. Etymology. The specific name is derived from the type locality; noun. Diagnosis. The new species is similar to <i>S. capra</i> Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995, but males can be distinguished by the unmodified chelicerae (Fig. 55C) and the females by the posteriorly directed, coiled afferent spermathecae (Fig. 6B). <i>S. capra</i> males have laterally excavated chelicerae, with a lateral horn, and females have anteriorly directed, straight afferent spermathecae (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995: figs 273–279). Description. Male. Total length 0.92; carapace length 0.49; carapace width 0.41; abdomen length 0.46; abdomen width 0.33. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly; shiny, light yellow, suffused with purplish pattern (Fig. 6C); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, suffused with purplish color, as long as wide. Endites light yellow suffused with purplish tinge; with serrula; labium light yellow suffused with purplish tinge. Clypeus nearly vertical; short. Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles (Fig. 55C). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation; PME smallest, ALE largest (Fig. 6C). Opisthosoma oval; purplish. Legs light yellow; leg lengths I 1.86 (0.53, 0.14, 0.55, 0.36, 0.28); II 1.71 (0.50, 0.14, 0.47, 0.33, 0.27); III missing; IV 1.93 (0.56, 0.15, 0.54, 0.42, 0.26). Genitalia (Fig. 5). Palpal femur long; palpal tibia as long as cymbium (Figs 5A–B). Cymbium conical, without prolateral extension. Bulb spherical. Embolus very short, dark and without distinct associated sclerites; sperm duct initially wide, gradually narrowing distally (Fig. 5D). Female. Total length 1.06; carapace length 0.51; carapace width 0.42; abdomen length 0.54; abdomen width 0.46. Similar to male in color and general features (Figs 6D–E) but larger. Leg lengths I 1.81 (0.50, 0.14, 0.51, 0.38, 0.27); II 1.67 (0.48, 0.16, 0.46, 0.33, 0.25); III missing; IV 1.94 (0.55, 0.13, 0.56, 0.42, 0.28). Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae short, strongly curved away from the epigastric furrow, not extending past the sides of the abdomen; tip of the afferent spermathecae question mark shaped (Fig. 6B); spermathecae oval (Fig. 6A). Distribution. Known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of <i>Tong, Yanfeng, Li, Fengyuan, Song, Yang, Chen, Haifeng &amp; Li, Shuqiang, 2019, Thirty-two new species of the genus Speocera Berland, 1914 (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from China, Madagascar and Southeast Asia, pp. 1-75 in Zoological Systematics 44 (1)</i> on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201901, http://zenodo.org/record/5366923