Hongkongia wuae Song et Zhu 1998
Creators: name: Zhang, Feng
name: Zhu, Ming-Sheng
name: Tso, I-Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Gnaphosidae
Hongkongia
Hongkongia wuae

description: Hongkongia wuae Song et Zhu, 1998
Figs. 1–7
Hongkongia wuae Song & Zhu, 1998: 104, f. 1A–E; Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 452, f. 263P; Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: 518, f. 886–888; Song, Zhu & Zhang, 2004: 157, f. 92A–E.
Diagnosis: The males of this species are immediately distinguishable by the extraordinary palpal organs. Palpal tibia with a bird-head-shaped retrolateral apophysis, a strong spine dorsally and a small tapering dorsal apophysis. The tegulum has three distinctive outgrowths: the ribbon-shaped embolus is very long and encircles along the semicircular tegulum, and has a bifid tip; the conductor projects conspicuously sideways, with a single coil near the apex in which the tip of the embolus is accommodated; the small membranous spine-shaped tegular apophysis sometimes concealed by the middle part of embolus, semitransparent and not easy to find.
Redescription: Male. Total body length 6.35, carapace 2.78 long, 1.60 wide; abdomen 3.57 long, 1.59 wide. Carapace (Fig. 1) yellow orange. Eye (Fig. 2) diameters AME 0.14, ALE 0.12, PME 0.16, PLE 0.12; eye distances AME–AME 0.09, AME–ALE 0.04, PME–PME 0.03, PME–PLE 0.04, ALE–PLE 0.05; MOA 0.39 long, front width 0.37, back width 0.36. Clypeal height 0.15. Chelicerae shape as in Fig. 3, promargin with three teeth and retromargin with a small tooth. Endites, labium and sternum as illustrated in Fig. 4. Legs light brown. Leg formula: 4123.
Leg measurements:
Abdomen light gray (Fig. 1), cardiac pattern dark gray; cluster of erect curved setae at anterior end, central part with two pairs of muscle impressions, three to four dark arch-shaped stripes on its posterior part. Anterior spinnerets elongated, about 1/4 of abdomen length.
Male palp (Figs 5–7): tibia about as long as wide, apical part with a bird-head-shaped retrolateral apophysis, a strong dorsal spine and a small tapering dorsal apophysis. Tegulum semicircular, with three distinctive outgrowths: the long ribbon-shaped embolus originating from the tegulum basally, encircling along the semicircular tegulum prolaterally, and then seeming to become two-tipped, one tip very spiculate, the other with expanded subapical tip and short spine-shaped tip (Fig. 5); the conductor hinged with tegulum, projecting conspicuously sideways, with a single coil near the tip in which the tip of the embolus is accommodated (Fig. 6); the small thorn shaped tegular apophysis (Fig. 6), membranous and semitransparent, originating from tegulum apically, concealed by the middle part of embolus (Fig. 5).
Type material: Holotype male from New Territories, Hongkong, China, August 21, 1995, J. Y. Wu leg., examined.
Other material examined: One male from Wuyin Town, Weishan County [N 25.2°, E 100.3°], Yunnan Province, China, June 8, 1999, X. L. Fan and Z. Z. Yang leg. (MHBU).
Distribution: China (Hongkong, Yunnan); Indonesia (Sulawesi).
description: Published as part of Zhang, Feng, Zhu, Ming-Sheng & Tso, I-Min, 2009, Review of the genus Hongkongia (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from China, pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 2164 on pages 63-65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189036