Chinattus validus
Creators: name: Logunov, Dmitri V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Chinattus
Chinattus validus

description: <i>Chinattus validus</i> (Xie, Peng et Kim, 1993) Figs 23–34, Map <i>Habrocestoides validus</i> Xie, Peng &amp; Kim, 1993: 25, figs 10–13 (D &amp;male;). <i>Chinattus validus</i>: Jastrz&amp;eogon;bski &amp; Patoleta 2014: 352, figs 1–14 (&amp;male;, D &amp;female;). For a complete set of references see WSC (2021). <b>Diagnosis and description.</b> See Peng &amp; Xie (1995: sub <i>Habrocestoides v.</i>) and Jastrz&amp;eogon;bski &amp; Patoleta (2014). <b>Comments</b>. This is one of the best studied and well-illustrated <i>Chinattus</i> species. The male of <i>C. validus</i> is distinguishable from all the known <i>Chinattus</i> species by the widest and strongest RTA that is bent mediad (Figs 23–25); the females of <i>C. validus</i> differ in having a unique, spoon-shaped epigynal pocket protruding from the rear edge of the epigynal plate and overhanging the epigastric furrow (Figs 26, 29) and the characteristic, S-shaped vulva (Figs 27, 28, 30). The specimens from India and Vietnam that are illustrated here correspond to and are complementary with those from China and Nepal (cf. figs 36–38 in Peng &amp; Xie 1995: sub <i>Habrocestoides v.</i>, and figs 1–14 in Jastrz&amp;eogon;bski &amp; Patoleta 2014). <b>Material examined.</b> <b>INDIA:</b> <i>Himachal Pradesh</i>: Patlikuhl, 32°07.4’N 77°08.8’E, 1200 m, leg. Y.M. Marusik, 17–23.VI.1999, 9&amp;male; 2&amp;female; (ZMMU; Figs 23–26, 28), 1&amp;male; (MMUE, G7656.2).— <b>NEPAL:</b> <i>Dhawalagi</i>: Lumsum, 28°31’N 83°17’E, c. 1980 m, leg. K.H. Hyatt, 12–14.VII.1954, 2&amp;male; 2&amp;female; (BMNH); same locality, leg. K. H. Hyatt, 20.VI.1954, 3&amp;male; 1&amp;female; (BMNH); same locality, leg. K. H. Hyatt, 20.VI.1954, 1&amp;male; 2&amp;female; (BMNH; Fig. 27).— <b>VIETNAM</b>: <i>Tuyen Quang Province</i>: c. 5 km E of Na Hang, 22°20’59”N 105°25’36”E, c. 290 m, beaten off understorey vegetation, leg. D. V. Logunov, 4–13.XI.2015, 1&amp;female; (MMUE, G7573.5; Figs 29–34). <b>Distribution.</b> The species is known from N India (Himachal Pradesh) (present data), throughout Nepal and Bhutan (Jastrz&amp;eogon;bski &amp; Patoleta 2014), to south-east China (two localities in Hunan) (Xie <i>et al</i>. 1993; Peng &amp; Xie 1995; both sub <i>Habrocestoides v.</i>) and northern Vietnam (Peng &amp; Li 2003; present data) (Map). The record from northern India lies at the north-westernmost limit of the currently known species range; it is a new species record to India and the second <i>Chinattus</i> species reported from there to date (cf. Basumatary <i>et al.</i> 2020); see also Table given below. The finding of this species from Vietnam is a new record to the country.
description: Published as part of <i>Logunov, Dmitri V., 2021, Notes on the genus Chinattus Logunov, 1999 from India, Pakistan and Nepal (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae), pp. 110-120 in Zootaxa 5006 (1)</i> on pages 115-116, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5006.1.15, http://zenodo.org/record/5157093
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