Wendilgarda panjanensis Barrion
Creators: name: Barrion, Alberto T.
name: Barrion-Dupo, Aimee Lynn A.
name: Catindig, Josie Lynn A.
name: Villareal, Sylvia C.
name: Ducheng Cai
name: Qianhua Yuan
name: Heong, Kong Luen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Theridiosomatidae
Wendilgarda
Wendilgarda panjanensis

description: 46. <b> <i>Wendilgarda panjanensis</i> Barrion, Barrion-</b> <b>Dupo &amp; Heong, new species</b> [Figure 46 A-H] <i>MALE.</i> Total length of holotype 1.29mm. Cephalothorax length 0.63mm, 0.51mm and height 0.47mm.Abdomen 1.07mm, width 0.80mm and height 0.71mm. male, width length <i>Carapace.</i> Dark reddish brown, 1.24 x longer than wide, cephalic distinctly narrower than thoracic area. Sternum blackis brown, 1.18 x wider than long (0.40: 0.34). Labium reddish brown. Maxillae dull yellow. Chelicerae yellow brown. <i>Eyes.</i> Recurved AE row as long as straight to procurved PE row. Eye diameter (mm):PLE (0.07)&gt; AME=ALE=PME (0.06). ALE almost perpendicular to PLE.Clypeus height wide, 2.16 x AME diameter. <i>Legs.</i> Yellow except light brown tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi. Distal one-third of tibia IV reddish brown. Tibiae I-IV each with very long slender spine about 3 x tibial diameter, retrolateral of tibia I with a similar spine 2.5 x its diameter. Tibia IV with 2 dorsal and one retrolateral spines. Three relatively short Tm present on dorsobasal area of tibia IV. Femur I almost as long as patella I + tibia I. Tarsus II and III subequal. Pedipalp yellow except brownish cymbium. Leg formula 1243. <i>Abdomen.</i> Globose, graywhite with double gray E-band anterodorsally and three wavy grayish bands medially and subposteriorly. Seven closelyspaced gray lines present posterodorsally. Palpal organ with a prominently large and bulbous tegulum.Cymbium parallel-sided with subtruncate to rounded apex viewed laterally. <i>FEMALE.</i> Unknown. <i>Material Examined.</i> Holotype male (coll. no. S039), CHINA, Hainan Is. Panja town, Songtao Reservoir, 0 3 April 2011, ATBarrion, JLACatindig and SCVillareal. Paratype 1 male, (coll. no. Ha 2011 - 6), same data as for holotype but collected from Haiko, 0 9 April 2011 <i>Diagnostic Features.</i> <i>Wendilgarda panjanensis</i> Barrion, Barrion-Dupo &amp; Heong new species closely resembles the general morphological features of <i>W. liliwensis</i> Barrion &amp; Litsinger, 1995. However, it can be differentiated from the said species in (1) distinctly reddish carapace, (2) abdominal design, (3) palpal structure particularly the large and bulbous tegulum, (4) leg spination and color pattern. <i>Etymology.</i> The specific epithet is named after the type locality.
description: Published as part of <i>Alberto T. Barrion, Aimee Lynn A. Barrion-Dupo, Josie Lynn A. Catindig, Sylvia C. Villareal, Ducheng Cai, Qianhua Yuan &amp; Kong Luen Heong, 2016, NEW SPECIES OF SPIDERS (ARANEAE) FROM HAINAN ISLAND, CHINA, pp. 1-103 in UPLB Museum Publications in Natural History 3</i> on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.269136
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