Pholcus undetermined, sp.
Creators: name: Lan, Tianqi
name: Jäger, Peter
name: Zhu, Wenhui
name: Li, Shuqiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Pholcus
Pholcus undetermined

description: Pholcus bat Lan & Li sp. nov.
Figs 7–8
Type material. Holotype: male (IZCAS-Ar41842), Bat Cave (21°43’28.52”N, 101°23’12.30”E, elevation 1000 m), Chengzi Village, Mengyuan Town, Mengla County, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China, 4 October 2017, P. Jäger leg. Paratypes: 2 females (IZCAS-Ar41843–Ar41844), same data as holotype.
Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality and is a noun in apposition.
Diagnosis. This species resembles P. zhaoi Yao, Pham & Li, 2015 (see Yao et al. 2015: 17, figs 58–60) with a similar bulbal apophyses (Fig. 8C) and male chelicerae (Fig. 8D) but can be distinguished by the presence of a strongly protruding subdisto-ventral process (arrow in Fig. 7C; not strongly protruding in P. zhaoi), small biangular subdisto-dorsal apophysis (arrow 1 in Fig. 7D; nearly semicircular in P. zhaoi) and conch-shaped distal apophysis (arrow 2 in Fig. 7D; ladder-shaped in P. zhaoi) on procursus.
Description. Male (holotype, IZCAS-Ar41842): Total length 6.76 (6.99 with clypeus), carapace 1.50 long, 1.72 wide, opisthosoma 5.26 long, 2.05 wide. Leg I: 45.68 (11.85 + 0.75 + 11.54 + 19.17 + 2.37), leg II: – (8.91 + 0.72 + 8.40 + 13.59 + –), leg III: 23.87 (6.86 + 0.66 + 6.03 + 9.10 + 1.22), leg IV: 30.84 (8.78 + 0.66 + 7.56 + 12.24 + 1.60); tibia I L/d: 53. Distance PME-PME 0.34, diameter PME 0.17, distance PME-ALE 0.04, distance AME-AME 0.03, diameter AME 0.08. Sternum wider than long (1.04/0.79). Habitus as in Figs 8E, F. Carapace yellowish, with brown marks medially; ocular area yellowish, with brown marks; clypeus yellowish; sternum black. Legs yellowish, but brown on patellae and whitish on distal parts of femora and tibiae, with darker rings on subdistal parts of femora, and proximal and subdistal parts of tibiae. Opisthosoma yellowish, with spots dorsally and laterally. Ocular area elevated, each eye triad on top of short laterally directed eye stalk. Thoracic furrow absent. Chelicerae as in Fig. 8D, with pair of small proximo-lateral apophyses, pair of distal apophyses and pair of frontal apophyses. Pedipalps as in Figs 7A, B; trochanter with small ventral apophysis; femur with distinct ventral protuberance; procursus simple proximally but complex distally, with two prolatero-dorsal spines (arrows in Fig. 7D), subdisto-ventral process (arrow in Fig. 7C), small biangular subdisto-dorsal apophysis (arrow 1 in Fig. 7D) and large, conch-shaped distal apophysis (arrow 2 in Fig. 7D); uncus with scaly edge (Fig. 8C); appendix with two long hooked branches (arrows in Fig. 8C); embolus weakly sclerotized, with some transparent projections distally (Fig. 8C). Retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia I at 4% proximally; legs with short, vertical setae on tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi, without spines and curved setae; tarsus I with 33 distinct pseudosegments.
Female (paratype, IZCAS-Ar41843): Similar to male, habitus as in Figs 8G, H. Total length 6.73 (6.88 with clypeus), carapace 1.67 long, 1.86 wide, opisthosoma 5.06 long, 1.47 wide; tibia I: 12.56; tibia I L/d: 48. Distance PME-PME 0.30, diameter PME 0.19, distance PME-ALE 0.04, distance AME-AME 0.03, diameter AME 0.10. Sternum wider than long (1.12/0.84). Epigynum (Fig. 8A) with proximal knob. Vulva (Fig. 8B) with sclerotized anterior arch, pair of sclerites (arrows in Fig. 8B), and pair of long pore plates.
Variation: Tibia I in another female paratype: 12.11 (IZCAS-Ar41844).
Distribution. China (Yunnan, type locality; Fig. 11).
Natural history. The species was found in the entrance zone of the cave.
description: Published as part of Lan, Tianqi, Jäger, Peter, Zhu, Wenhui & Li, Shuqiang, 2021, Pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia, with descriptions of five new species, pp. 545-562 in Zootaxa 4963 (3) on page 555, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4963.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/4704485