Pholcus harveyi Zhang &amp; Zhu 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zhang, Feng
name: Zhu, Ming-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Pholcus
Pholcus harveyi

description: <i>Pholcus harveyi</i> sp. nov. (Fig. 15) <b>Types.</b> Male holotype, 4&amp;male;, 16&amp;female; paratypes, CHINA: Henan Province, Luanchuan County [33°42’N, 115°30’E], Mt. Longyuwan, July 20, 2004, leg. M. S. Zhu (MHBU). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Among its relatives within <i>Pholcus</i> (see the remark of <i>P. clavatus</i>), this species is very similar to <i>P. huberi</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, <i>P. songxian</i> <b>sp. nov.</b>, <i>P. parayichengicus</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> (all Henan Province) and <i>P. yichengicus</i> (Shanxi Province) in the shapes of the palpal bulb and epigynum, all with a biforked ventral apophysis of trochanter (Figs. 15I, 17I, 33I, 46I and 60I) and a long teat-shaped epigynal apophysis (Figs. 15A, 17A, 33I, 46A and 60A). It can be distinguished from them by the shape of the tip of the procursus and the appendix (Figs. 15G–I); also from <i>P. huberi</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> by the branched appendix centrally (Fig. 15H), also from <i>P. songxian</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> and <i>P. parayichengicus</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> by the cephalic region with brown central marks (Fig. 15C) and also from <i>P. yichengicus</i> by the pair of large pore plates (Fig. 15B). <b>Etymology.</b> The specific name is a patronym in honor of Dr. Mark S. Harvey, a well known arachnologist from Australia. <b>Description.</b> Male (holotype): total body length 4.8: cephalothorax 1.4 long, 1.6 wide; abdomen 3.4 long, 1.4 wide. Leg I: 36.3 (9.3+0.7+9.0+14.9+2.4), tibia II: 8.2, tibia III: 4.4, tibia IV: 7.3; tibia I L/D: 64. Prosoma shape as in Fig. 15C. Carapace short, broad and almost circular, ochre, with brown mark broadly connecting to ocular area. Cephalic region raised, with one brown slender central mark, ocular area dark yellow. Clypeus 0.42, ochre, with marks centrally. Distance AME–AME 0.08. Diameter AME 0.09, ALE 0.15, PME 0.14, PLE 0.15. Chelicerae as in Fig. 15E, with pair of black apophyses distally, pair of unsclerotized thumb-shaped apophyses proximolaterally and pair of small unsclerotized rounded apophyses proximocentrally. Labium light yellow. Endites gray. Sternum dark gray, with one central marking and three pairs of pale markings along margin as in Fig. 15F. Femora, patellae and tibiae ochre, with dark rings, metatarsi and tarsi brown. Abdomen cylindrical, pale ochre, dorsum with several small brown markings as in Fig. 15C. Venter pale brown. Palps as in Figs. 15H and 15I, bulb with large uncus having numerous teeth along the margin and hoe-shaped appendix. Procursus as in Fig. 15G. Tarsal organ capsulate. <b>Variation.</b> Tibia I in four other males: 8.4, 8.4, 8.8, 8.9. Body length in four other males 4.4–4.9. Female: in general very similar to male. Total length of bodies 4.3–5.2. One paratype (Mt. Longyuwan), total length 4.5: cephalothorax 1.4 long, 1.5 wide; abdomen 3.1 long, 1.4 wide. Tibia I: 6.7. Distance AME–AME 0.06. Diameter AME 0.08, ALE 0.15, PME 0.13, PLE 0.13. Epigynum roughly dome-shaped as in Fig. 15A, with a large necktie-shaped apophysis on the top. Dorsal view as in Fig. 15B, with a wavy sclerotized arch anteriorly and a pair of oval pore plates. <b>Distribution.</b> Known from type locality only.
description: Published as part of <i>Zhang, Feng &amp; Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2009, A review of the genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 2037 (1)</i> on pages 35-37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2235.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5317608