Speocera gexuejuni 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 gexuejuni

description: <i>Speocera gexuejuni</i> Li &amp; Li sp. nov. (Figs 22–23, 56B) Material examined. Holotype &amp;male; (IZCAS), China, Hainan Province, Lingshui County, Benhao Town, Diaoluoshan Mountain Natural Reserve, riverside, near ticket lobby (18º40.132′N, 109º53.911′E), elev. 280 m, 24.VI.2014, leg. F. Li &amp; X. Wang. Paratype 1&amp;female; (IZCAS), 11.XII.2018, leg. Z. Chen, other data same as holotype. Etymology. The specific name is named in honor of Prof. Dr. Ge Xuejun from South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for his contribution in plant systematics and evolution; name in genitive case. Diagnosis. The new species is very similar to <i>S. heilan</i> Li &amp; Li <b>sp. nov.</b> but can be distinguished by the spherical male palpal bulb and the belt-like embolus (Fig. 22). <i>S. heilan</i> has a more flattened palpal bulb and a very small embolus (Fig. 25). Description. Male. Total length 1.08; carapace length 0.53; carapace width 0.45; abdomen length 0.49; abdomen width 0.34. Prosoma: carapace pyriform, narrowing gradually anteriorly, anterior margin straight in dorsal view; light yellow, suffused with purplish pattern (Fig. 23C); 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; external margin strongly excavated; promargin with a series of six teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin with two very small denticles (Fig. 56B). Eyes: six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation, ALE and PME subequal, PLE largest (Fig. 23C). Opisthosoma oval; purplish. Legs light yellow; leg lengths I, II missing; III 2.12 (0.94, 0.14, 0.45, 0.34, 0.25); IV 2.20 (0.61, 0.16, 0.64, 0.45, 0.34). Genitalia (Fig. 22). Palpal femur long; palpal tibia and cymbium incrassate, palpal tibia strongly enlarged basally, 1.1 times as long as cymbium (Figs 22A–B). Cymbium conical, with prolateral extension basally. Bulb spherical, as long as wide. Embolus beltlike, dark, associated sclerites short; sperm duct initially wide, gradually narrowing distally (Fig. 22D). Female. Total length 1.02; carapace length 0.55; carapace width 0.43; abdomen length 0.59; abdomen width 0.42. Similar to male in color and general features (Figs 23D–E). Chelicerae unmodified. Leg lengths I 1.96 (0.55, 0.19, 0.56, 0.38, 0.28); II 1.73 (0.50, 0.16, 0.48, 0.34, 0.27); III 1.54 (0.45, 0.14, 0.38, 0.33, 0.24); IV 2.02 (0.58, 0.16, 0.56, 0.45, 0.28). Genitalia. Internal genitalia with afferent spermathecae short, tip slightly curved posteriorly, not extending past the sides of the abdomen (Fig. 23B); spermathecae oval (Fig. 23A). 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 page 27, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201901, http://zenodo.org/record/5366923