Nediphya lehtineni Marusik &amp; Omelko 2017, sp. n.
Creators: name: Marusik, Y. M.
name: Omelko, M. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Tetragnathidae
Nediphya
Nediphya lehtineni

description: Nediphya lehtineni sp. n. (figs 1–5, 12–13, 16–31, 34–39, 43, 50–51) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 68810199-5FA4-4779-AEE0-2D4F629438D9 Types. Holotype &amp;male;: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Mt Kaindi, 2350 m, vegetation, 8– 10.03.1974 (H. Hippa) (ZMUT). Paratypes: 1 &amp;female;, same locality, in litter, 11.03.1974; 1 &amp;female;, same locality, in hanging moss of cloud forest, 9.03.1974 (P. T. Lehtinen) (ZMUT). Diagnosis. Females of <i>N. lehtineni</i> sp. n. differ from those of <i>N. lyleae</i> sp. n. and <i>N. hippai</i> sp. n. by having lateral dark bands on the carapace <i>vs</i>. sublateral in the other two species. <i>Nediphya lehtineni</i> sp. n. can be distinguished from <i>N. padillai</i> sp. n. (which has a similar carapace pattern) by the shape of the epigyne: the median plate in <i>N. lehtineni</i> sp. n. is almost as long as wide <i>vs</i>. 3 times wider than long in <i>N. padillai</i> sp. n. D e s c r i p t i o n. Male holotype. Total length 2.52, carapace 1.14 long, 0.95 wide. Carapace yellowish brown with wide dark brown lateral bands on thoracic part and thin light marginal stripe. Chelicerae yellow, with 3 prolateral and 3 retrolateral teeth. Sternum and maxillae yellow. Sternum subtriangular. Labium yellowish gray. Legs yellowish. Femora, tibiae, metatarsi grayish proximally. Abdomen with complicated pattern of spots and stripes dorsally and dark longitudinal stripes laterally. Length of leg segments in &amp;male; Femur Patella Tibia Metatarsus Tarsus Total I 1.91 0.47 1.97 2.04 0.86 7.23 II 1.37 0.45 1.31 1.38 0.63 5.13 III 0.81 0.29 0.60 0.62 0.38 2.69 IV 1.20 0.24 0.93 0.98 0.45 3.80 Leg spination in &amp;male; Femur Patella Tibia Metatarsus Tarsus I 1d, 3p 1d 2d, 2r 1d – II 1d 1d 2d, 1p, 1r 1d – III 1d 2d 1d 1d, 1p – IV 3d 2d 2d, 1p 1d – Male palp as in figs 16–31, 34–39 and as described for genus. Female. Total length 3.36, carapace 1.23 long, 0.95 wide. Coloration and chelicera as in male. Length of leg segments in &amp;female; Femur Patella Tibia Metatarsus Tarsus Total I 1.58 0.48 1.50 1.46 0.71 5.72 II 1.29 0.45 1.14 1.17 0.57 4.62 III 0.78 0.32 0.56 0.60 0.38 2.63 IV 1.16 0.33 0.90 0.90 0.44 3.72 Leg spination in &amp;female; Femur Patella Tibia Metatarsus I 1(0)p 1d 2p 1r II – 1d 1d 1p 1r III – 1d 1d 1p 1r 1d 1p 1r IV – 1d 2d 1p 1d 1p Epigyne as in figs 43, 50–51, with subtriangular median plate slightly wider than long; copulatory ducts almost parallel, separated by less than one diameter; 2 pairs of receptacles visible through integument; vulva with round proper receptacles (<i>Re</i>) and 2 weakly sclertozied pairs of anterior receptacles, one pair rounded (<i>Rr</i>) and the other pair elongated (<i>Er</i>). Note. In <i>Nanometa</i> sp., Álvarez-Padilla &amp; Hormiga (2011) interpreted the anterior pairs of receptacles as being part of the copulatory ducts. Distribution. The new species is known only from the type locality where <i>Nediphya hippai</i> sp. n. is also known to occur. Etymology. The species name is a patronym in honour of our senior colleague Pekka Lehtinen (Turku, Finland) who collected the holotype as well as specimens of the other three species of <i>Nediphya</i> gen. n.
description: Published as part of <i>Marusik, Y. M. &amp; Omelko, M. M., 2017, A New Genus Of Tetragnathid Spiders From Papua New Guinea (Aranei, Tetragnathidae), pp. 203-214 in Vestnik Zoologii (Vestn. Zool.) (Vestn. Zool.) 51 (3)</i> on pages 206-207, DOI: 10.1515/vzoo-2017-0027, http://zenodo.org/record/6454189
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