Plator Simon 1880
Creators: name: Zhu, Ming-Sheng
name: Tang, Gui-Ming
name: Zhang, Feng
name: Song, Da-Xiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Trochanteriidae
Plator

description: <i>Plator</i> Simon, 1880 <i>Plator</i> Simon 1880: 106; Roewer 1955: 474; Bonnet 1958: 3699; Platnick 1976 a: 3; 2002: 9. <i>Hitoegumoa</i> Kishida 1914: 44. Type species by monotypy <i>Hitoegumoa nipponica</i> Kishida, first synonymized by Platnick 1976 a: 3. Type species. <i>Plator insolens</i> Simon, 1880, by monotypy. <i>Diagnosis</i> <i>Plator</i> can be easily distinguished from <i>Doliomalus</i> by carapace much wider than long, semicircular in shape rather than rounded (Fig. 1), and by the male with embolus short and wide at base rather than elongated and thickened (Figs 6, 12). <i>Description</i> Total length 5.10–10.82. Body flattened, legs laterigrade. Prosoma very flat, much wider than long, carapace bearing a strongly sclerotized carina along posterior margin, each side with four linear depressions (median groove and radial furrow), margins with single row of bristles, other areas clothed with fine hairs and sparse dark setae (Fig. 1). Eight eyes in two rows, anterior eye row slightly recurved or straight, posterior eye row recurved; PLE largest, PME smallest, AME smaller than ALE; all eyes except PME with basal black marks. Chelicerae short, projecting forward, both margins with teeth. Labium longer than wide, arrow­shaped. Distal half of endites small, oval. Sternum wider than long, truncate anteriorly and posteriorly, rounded laterally, coxae IV separated by roughly three­fourths of their length. Leg formula 2341. Coxae greatly elongated (Fig. 2). Anterior two pairs of legs with many erect spiniform bristles on ventral surfaces, but leg II not so many as leg I. Tarsi with two claws, without claw tufts or scopulae. Opisthosoma oval or nearly round, clothed dorsally with small paddle hairs and sparse dark setae bearing spinules (Figs 36, 37). Colulus absent. Six spinnerents. Anterior and median spinnerets in transverse line; anteriors short, without visible spigots, medians with elongated tips bearing two longitudinal row of spigots; posterior spinnerets small, conical, sited both sides of anal tubercle (Figs 40–42). The epigynum of females with variational margins. The pedipalpus of the males lacking or presenting a RTA. The spiders of <i>Plator</i> are free­living wanders under the bark of trees, the rocks, or in the crevices of old buildings. They are considered to be a group of rare spiders in Chinese fauna.
description: Published as part of <i>Zhu, Ming-Sheng, Tang, Gui-Ming, Zhang, Feng &amp; Song, Da-Xiang, 2006, Revision of the spider family Trochanteriidae from China (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea), pp. 31-51 in Zootaxa 1140 (1)</i> on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1140.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/172053
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