Rhitymna plana Jäger, 2003

Hu, Changhao, Zhang, He & Zhong, Yang, 2025, New data on the huntsman spiders (Araneae, Sparassidae) of China, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 153724-e 153724 : e153724-

Rhitymna plana Jäger, 2003

Rhitymna plana : Jäger (2003): 119, figs. 75–82 (description of female); Jäger (2007): 56 , figs. 96–97; Jäger (2019): 448 , figs. 12–15 and 20–25 (description of male).

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Shengming Liang; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; county: Fangchenggang City, Shangsi County; verbatimLocality: Guangxi Shiwandashan National Forest Park; verbatimElevation: 590 m; verbatimLatitude: 21°53’28”N; verbatimLongitude: 107°53’50”E; Event: year: 2017; month: 6; day: 7

Description

See Jäger (2019) (Figs 6 , 8 C and D).

Diagnosis

See Jäger (2019).

Distribution

China (Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, new record, Fig. 9 ), Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam.

Figures

Figure 6. Left male palp of Rhitymna plana Jäger, 2003 from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. A prolateral view; B ventral view; C retrolateral view; D embolus and embolic apophysis, retrolateral view; E retrolateral tibial apophysis, ventral view; F retrolateral tibial apophysis, retrolateral view. Abbreviations: E embolus; EA embolic apophysis; RTA retrolateral tibial apophysis; Sp spermophor. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (A – C); 0.1 mm (D); 0.2 mm (E, F).

Figure 8. Male habitus. A, B Olios suung Jäger, 2012 from Yunnan Province, China; C, D Rhitymna plana Jäger, 2003 from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China; E, F Thelcticopis lini sp. nov. from Hainan Province, China. A, C, E dorsal view; B, D, F ventral view. Scale bars: 2 mm.

Figure 9. Collection locality of sparassid specimens in the current paper from China. 1 Heteropoda acris Korai & Jäger, 2024; 2 Olios sericeus (Kroneberg, 1875); 3 O. suung Jäger, 2012; 4 Rhitymna plana Jäger, 2003; 5 Thelcticopis lini sp. nov.