Trilacuna triseta Tong &amp; Li 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Tong, Yanfeng
name: Li, Shuqiang
name: Bian, Dongju
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Trilacuna
Trilacuna triseta

description: Trilacuna triseta Tong &amp; Li sp. nov.Figs 11, 12, 14J-L, 16G, 16H Type material. <i>Holotype</i> &amp;male;: Myanmar, Kachin State, Putao, Hponkanrazi Wildlife Sanctuary; 27°32.032'N, 97°00.036'E; elevation ca 2010 m; 15.V.2017; Wu J. and Chen Z. leg. (IZCAS AR-25155). Diagnosis. The new species is similar to <i>T. bilingua</i> Eichenberger, 2011 but can be distinguished by the three black, thick setae on the endites of the male (Figs 11G, 16G, 16H) and the slender anterior branch (ab) of the embolus system (Fig. 12E, 12F, 12H). <i>Trilacuna bilingua</i> lacks black, thick setae on the endites, and the embolus system has two very short lobes basally (Eichenberger et al. 2011: fig. 5-6). Description. <b> Male. <i>Body</i></b> : reddish brown, chelicerae and sternum lighter, legs yellow; habitus as in Figure 11A-C; body length 1.97. <i>Carapace</i>: 0.95 long, 0.74 wide; sides smooth; lateral margin rebordered (Fig. 11B); posterior surface with several large setal bases (Fig. 11H). <i>Eyes</i>: ALE largest; PLE and PME nearly equal in size; ALE-PLE separated by less than ALE radius; PME touching each other; posterior eye row recurved as viewed from above, procurved as viewed from front (Fig. 11D, I). <i>Clypeus</i>: height about 0.85 times of ALE diameter, with a triangular, pointed, median projection (cmp). <i>Mouthparts</i> (Figs 11F, I, 16G, H): endites with three thick, black setae. <i>Sternum</i> (Fig. 11F). <i>Abdomen</i>: 1.05 long, 0.80 wide; booklung covers ovoid, surface smooth (Fig. 11B); dorsal scutum not fused to epigastric scutum; apodemes present; posterior spiracles connected by groove (Fig. 11C). <i>Palp</i> (Figs 12, 14J-L): orange; 0.72 long (0.17, 0.11, 0.11, 0.33); femur elongated (width/length = 0.53) (Fig. 12A, B); bulb oval, tapering apically; embolus system (Fig. 12E, 12F, 12H) with an anterior branch (ab), a dorsal branch (db), a ventral branch (vb), and a median lobe (ml) in prolateral view. <b>Female.</b> Unknown. Etymology. The species epithet is a noun in apposition composed of the Latin words <i>tri</i> (three) and <i>seta</i> and refers to the three black, thick setae on the male’s endites. Distribution. Known only from the type locality. Remarks. There are two species reported from a single female specimen in this study, and one described from a single male: <i>T. loebli</i> Grismado &amp; Piacentini, 2014, <i>T. zhigangi</i> Tong &amp; Li, sp. nov., and <i>T. triseta</i> Tong &amp; Li, sp. nov., respectively. The following characters indicate that neither of the two females are conspecific with <i>T. triseta</i> Tong &amp; Li, sp. nov. <i>T. loebli</i> is dark brown (Fig. 10A) with a reticulated carapace (Fig. 10D), and <i>T. zhigangi</i> has small eyes (Fig. 13A) and lacks the triangular, pointed, median projection of the clypeus (Fig. 13H). The male, <i>T. triseta</i> Tong &amp; Li, sp. nov. has a reddish-brown body, a smooth carapace, normal-sized eyes, and a triangular, pointed, median projection (Fig. 11A, D, I).
description: Published as part of <i>Tong, Yanfeng, Li, Shuqiang &amp; Bian, Dongju, 2020, Taxonomic studies on the genus Trilacuna (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Myanmar, pp. 39-62 in ZooKeys 960</i> on page 39, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.960.54053