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Published: 2011-04-14
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First description of the male of Notiocoelotes pseudolingulatus (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Hainan Island, China

College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China
College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China
Key Laboratory of Eco-environments in Three Gorges Reservoir Region (Ministry of Education), School of Life Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Araneae Agelenidae

Abstract

The genus Notiocoelotes was established by Wang, Xu & Li, 2008. At present, it includes 11 species (Platnick 2011), all from Southeast Asia: China (Hainan Island), Laos, Thailand and Vietnam (Wang, Xu & Li, 2008; Liu & Li, 2010). While studying the Notiocoelotes species collected from Hainan Island, China, we found one male and two female Notiocoelotes specimens in the same locality. We identified the female as Notiocoelotes pseudolingulatus Liu & Li, 2010. The male specimen has habitus and markings very similar to the female of N. pseudolingulatus, and the characters of palpal organ conform to the genus Notiocoelotes. We therefore identified it as the male of N. pseudolingulatus, and describe it here. The format of the description and abbreviations of morphological terms follow that of Wang, Xu & Li, 2008.

References

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    Platnick, N.I. (2011) The world spider catalog, version 11.5. American Museum of Natural History. Available from http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html (accessed 2 March 2011).

    Wang, X.P., Xu, X. & Li, S.Q. (2008) Notiocoelotes, a new genus of the spider subfamily Coelotinae from Southeast Asia (Araneae: Amaurobiidae). Zootaxa, 1853, 1–17.