Phintella fodingensis Wang, Mi & Peng 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Wang, Cheng
name: Mi, Xiao-Qi
name: Wang, Wei-Hang
name: Gan, Jia-Hui
name: Irfan, Muhammad
name: Zhong, Yang
name: Peng, Xian-Jin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Phintella
Phintella fodingensis

description: Phintella fodingensis Wang, Mi & Peng sp. nov.
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Figs 15–16, 59
Diagnosis
The male of Phintella fodingensis sp. nov. resembles that of P. popovi (Prószyński, 1979), but differs in: (1) the RTA being extended upward in ventral view (Fig. 15A), whereas extended diagonally towards bulb in P. popovi (Peng 2020: fig. 218b); (2) the embolus being straight (Fig. 15A), whereas curved medially (Peng 2020: fig. 218b). The female also resembles that of P. popovi, but differs in the copulatory openings, which are separated from each other by about 1.8 times spermathecal width (Fig. 16A), whereas almost touching in P. popovi (Peng 2020: fig. 218g).
Etymology
The species name is derived from the name of the type locality, Foding Mountain National Nature Reserve; adjective.
Type material
Holotype
CHINA • ♂; Guizhou, Shiqian County, Ganxi Township, Fuyan Village, Jiuchashu; 27°20.62′ N, 108°3.56′ E; 1410 m a.s.l.; 29 Apr. 2017; X.Q. Mi et al. leg.; TRU-JS 0146.
Paratypes
CHINA • 3 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂; same collection data as for holotype; TRU-JS 0147–0151.
Description
Male (holotype)
MEASUREMENTS. Total length 3.88. Carapace 1.69 long, 1.38wide. Abdomen 2.06 long, 1.22 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.43, ALE 0.23, PLE 0.21, AERW 1.28, PERW 1.22, EFL 0.88. Legs: I 5.10 (1.41, 0.75, 1.38, 1.05, 0.51), II 4.47 (1.24, 0.68, 1.13, 0.93, 0.49), III 4.83 (1.34, 0.63, 1.15, 1.22, 0.49), IV 4.99 (1.41, 0.53, 1.25, 1.29, 0.51).
HABITUS. Carapace yellow, covered with white and brown scale-like setae and brown setae, with pale area anteromedially on thorax (Fig. 16C, F). Chelicerae with one retromarginal tooth and two promarginal teeth, without distal flange of fang (Fig. 16G). Legs pale yellow to yellow except femora and tibiae I brown to dark brown. Abdomen elongate-oval, dorsum pale brown, with a pair of longitudinal, white stripes formed by setae laterally; venter pale gray to pale brown (Fig. 16C–D).
PALP. Tibia almost as long as wide in ventral view; RTA strongly curved medially in ventral view, and tapered to pointed tip curved diagonally towards bulb in retrolateral view; bulb slightly broadened posteriorly, with posterior lobe extended downward; tegular bump lamellar; lamellar process about nine times as long as wide; embolus thin and straight, with rather pointed tip almost directed towards 1 o’clock position in ventral view (Fig. 15).
Female (paratype, TRU-JS 0147)
MEASUREMENTS. Total length 4.40. Carapace 1.84 long, 1.41 wide. Abdomen 2.50 long, 1.63 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.45, ALE 0.23, PLE 0.21, AERW 1.37, PERW 1.34, EFL 0.94. Legs: I 3.53 (1.10, 0.68, 0.75, 0.66, 0.34), II 3.30 (1.05, 0.55, 0.75, 0.61, 0.34), III 3.82 (1.22, 0.55, 0.78, 0.90, 0.37), IV 4.34 (1.32, 0.58, 1.00, 1.07, 0.37).
HABITUS. Similar to that of male except paler in color and with irregular longitudinal stripe on dorsum of abdomen (Fig. 16E).
EPIGYNE. With bow-shaped basal plate; copulatory openings oval, anteriorly located, separated from each other by 1.8 times spermathecal width; copulatory ducts short, curved as arc-shape and connected to anterior edges of oval spermathecae; fertilization ducts lamellar, extended anterolaterally (Fig. 16A–B).
Distribution
China (Guizhou) (Fig. 59).
description: Published as part of Wang, Cheng, Mi, Xiao-Qi, Wang, Wei-Hang, Gan, Jia-Hui, Irfan, Muhammad, Zhong, Yang & Peng, Xian-Jin, 2023, Notes on twenty-nine species of jumping spiders from South China (Araneae: Salticidae), pp. 1-91 in European Journal of Taxonomy 902 on pages 26-29, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.902.2319, http://zenodo.org/record/10115594