Khorata liuzhouensis YAO &amp; LI, 2010, sp. nov.
Creators: name: YAO, ZHIYUAN
name: LI, SHUQIANG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Khorata
Khorata liuzhouensis

description: <i>Khorata liuzhouensis</i> sp. nov. Figs 21–24, 61 Type material: <b>Holotype:</b> male (IZCAS), Guanyin Cave [24°13.782ʹN, 109°24.663ʹE, alt. 89 m], Dule Village, Liuzhou, Guangxi, <b>China</b>, 25 July 2009, Z.Y. Yao and C.X. Wang leg. <b>Paratype:</b> 1 female (IZCAS), same data as holotype. <b>Etymology:</b> The specific name refers to the type locality; adjective. <b>Diagnosis:</b> This species resembles <i>K. paquini</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> in having similar male chelicerae (Figs 23B–C, 43B–C) and similar ventral view of female genital area (Figs 22A, 24C, 42A, 44C), but can be distinguished by the black median stripe behind ocular area (Figs 21C, 22C), the different distal elements of procursus (Figs 21A–B, D; 23A, D; 24A), and the nearly right-angled triangular pore plates of epigynum (Figs 22B, 24D). This species also resembles <i>K. triangula</i> <b>sp. nov.</b> in having similar dorsal view of epigynum (Figs 22B, 24D, 56B, 58C), but can be distinguished by the black median stripe behind ocular area (Figs 21C, 22C), the shape of apophyses of male chelicerae (Figs 23B–C), the different distal elements of procursus (Figs 21A–B, D; 23A, D; 24A), and the ventral view of female genital area (Figs 22A, 24C). <b>Description: Male (holotype):</b> Total length 2.43 (2.56 with clypeus), prosoma 0.90 long, 1.03 wide, opisthosoma 1.53 long, 1.22 wide. Leg I: 21.92 (5.45 + 0.51 + 5.51 + 7.82 + 2.63), leg II: 13.74 (3.91 + 0.47 + 3.40 + 4.55 + 1.41), leg III: 10.38 (3.01 + 0.45 + 2.56 + 3.40 + 0.96), leg IV: 12.99 (3.85 + 0.41 + 3.21 + 4.49 + 1.03); tibia I L/d: 50. Habitus as in Fig. 21C. Dorsal shield of prosoma yellowish, with black margins and black median stripe behind ocular area; sternum black. Legs yellowish, with slightly darker rings on femora (subdistally) and tibiae (proximally and subdistally). Opisthosoma grey with large black spots dorsally and ventrally. Ocular area slightly elevated and separated from prosoma, thoracic furrow shallow but distinct; distance PME-PME 0.10; diameter PME 0.12; distance PME-ALE 0.02; AME absent. Sternum slightly wider than long (0.63/0.56). Chelicerae as in Figs 23B–C, with pair of long, hooked frontal apophyses (distance between tips: 4 µm); pair of strong proximal apophyses and small apophyses at basal part of frontal apophyses, respectively, without modified hairs; pair of small ledges on frontolateral surface distally. Palps as in Figs 21A–B; 23A, D; trochanter with retrolateral apophysis and small ventral projection, femur with retrolateral apophysis, patella large, procursus simple proximally but complex distally, bulb simple, no other projections except for embolus. Retrolateral trichobothrium of tibia I at 14%; legs with short vertical hairs on all metatarsi (mostly dorsally and laterally), without spines and curved hairs; tarsus I with more than 20 pseudosegments, only about 12 distinct ones distally. <b>Variation:</b> Unknown. <b>Female:</b> Similar to male, habitus as in Figs 22C–D. Tibia I: 4.81. Genital area brown (Figs 22A, 24B–C), with internal structures nearly invisible through cuticle, without distinct pockets. Dorsal view of epigynum (Figs 22B, 24D) with two nearly right-angled triangular pore plates. <b>Distribution:</b> The species is known only from the type locality (Fig. 61).
description: Published as part of <i>YAO, ZHIYUAN &amp; LI, SHUQIANG, 2010, Pholcid spiders of the genus Khorata Huber, 2005 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Guangxi, China, pp. 1-79 in Zootaxa 2594 (1)</i> on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2594.1.1