Plator pennatus Platnick 1976
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
Plator pennatus

description: <i>Plator pennatus</i> Platnick, 1976 (Figs 25 –30, 46) <i>Plator pennatus</i> Platnick 1976 a: 6, figs 3–4; Song <i>et al</i>. 1999: 431, fig. 258 G. <i>Diagnosis</i> This species can be easily distinguished from other species of the genus by epigynum of females with short margins on its anteriolateral corners, anteriorly copulatory ducts Ushaped (Figs 27, 28); median apophysis of males pedipalpus short, triangular, hooked distally (Fig. 29). <i>Description</i> Female total length 10.89. Carapace 2.88 long, 4.77 wide; opisthosoma 7.11 long, 6.12 wide. Carapace almost semicircular, much wider than long, pale orange, linear depressions reddish brown, lateral margins with single row of bristles, other areas clothed with fine hairs and sparse dark setae with a black brown carina along posterior margin of carapace (Fig. 25). Anterior eye row straight, posterior eye row recurved. Posterior median eye oval, other circular. Eye diameters: AME 0.13, ALE 0.12, PME 0.13, PLE 0.18. Distances between eyes: AME–AME 0.10, AME–ALE 0.15, PME–PME 0.25, PME–PLE 0.38. MOA 0.36 long, front width 0.38, back width 0.51. Chelicerae reddish brown, short, with four promarginal and three retromarginal teeth. Clypeus, endites and sternum light orange. Clypeus longer than wide, arrow­shaped. Maxilla oval. Sternum wider than long, with red brown margins. Femora of legs light orange, other segments reddish brown. Ventral surfaces of anterior two pairs of legs with many erect spiniform bristles, but leg I more. Ventral surfaces of posterior legs with only a few weak, erect spiniform bristles and spines. Leg formula 2341. Leg measurements of <i>Plator pennatus</i> Platnick 1976, female. Opisthosoma oval, widest at middle. Dorsum greyish brown, posterior margin black, clothed with small paddle hairs and sparse dark setae bearing spinules. Venter grey yellow, clothed light red brown fine hairs. Colulus absent. Six spinnerents. Epigynum with short margins on its anteriolateral corners and almost triangular, anteriorly copulatory ducts Ushaped (Figs 27, 28). Male total length 5.44. Carapace 2.20 long, 3.24 wide; opisthosoma 3.33 long, 3.51 wide. Eye diameters: AME 0.13, ALE 0.10, PME 0.12, PLE 0.15. Distances between eyes: AME–AME 0.05, AME–ALE 0.08, PME–PME 0.17, PME–PLE 0.33. MOA 0.18 long, front width 0.31, back width 0.41. Appearance of body as female. Carapace, clypeus maxilla and sternum pale orange. Femora of legs pale orange, other segments greyish black. Erect spiniform bristles of anterior two pairs of legs less and weaker than those in female. Retrolateral tibial apophysis of pedipalpus short, directed ventrally. Median apophysis short, triangular, and a hooked tip (Figs 29, 30). <i>Va r i a t i o n</i> Body length: females 8.42–10.89; males 5.44–5.46. <i>Material examined</i> CHINA: Yunnan Province, Dali City, N 25 ° 34 ’, E 100 ° 13 ’, 7 females and 2 males, 28 November 2000, Zi­Zhong Yang leg. (MHBU). <i>Distribution</i> Southwest China (Yunnan). <i>Biology</i> Living under bark of eucalypt trees.
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 pages 44-46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1140.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/172053
description: {"references": ["Platnick, N. I. (1976 a) Notes on East Asian Plator (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea). Acta arachnologica, 27 (1), 1 - 7.", "Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. &amp; Chen, J. (1999) The Spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp."]}