Gelotia liuae Wang & Li, 2020

Hoang, Quang D., , Quoc T. Phan, Vo, & Van M., 2024, First record of Gelotia Thorell, 1890 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Vietnam with description of a new species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 72, pp. 294-302 : 299-301

Gelotia liuae Wang & Li, 2020

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Gelotia sp. Maddison et al., 2014: 68, fig. 7 (male).

Gelotia liuae Wang & Li, 2020: 38 , figs. 7A–D, 8A–F, 17D, 18D, 19D (male, female).

Material examined. Male (VNMN-ARA-SAL-230), VIETNAM, Quang Binh Prov., Bo Trach District, near Phong Nha cave (17.6141°N, 106.3041°E), 46m a.s.l., 18 May 2020, coll. Q.D. Hoang ; Female (VNMN-ARA-SAL-331), VIETNAM, Bac Giang Prov., Son Dong District, Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve (21.1810°N, 106.7228°E), 202m a.s.l., 9 July 2022, Coll. Q.D. Hoang.

Description. Well-described by Wang & Li (2020). Habitus and copulatory organs from Vietnamese specimens as in Figs. 3–4.

Variation. The specimens from Vietnam were collected from at least two different localities (a male from central Vietnam and a female from northern Vietnam). They show some differences with the original description by Wang & Li (2020): male with RTA slightly thicker and more bent than the holotype ( Figs. 3C–D and fig. 7A–B in Wang & Li, 2020), DTA almost pointed ( Fig. 3D) rather than blunt (fig. 7A–B in Wang & Li, 2020), and embolus more curved than in the holotype ( Fig. 3D, and fig. 7B–D in Wang & Li, 2020); the female from Vietnam shows a different epigyne,

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the fossa fused with rim of window ( Fig. 4C) vs. wider than the window in the paratype (fig. 8A in Wang & Li, 2020), copulatory ducts about half length of spermathecae ( Fig. 4D) while near 2/ 3 in the paratype (fig. 8B in Wang & Li, 2020), spermathecae symmetrical ( Fig. 4D) vs. obliquely at an angle of about 45 degrees in the illustrations (fig. 8B in Wang & Li, 2020). Despite the minor differences between the specimens from China and Vietnam and their genetic distance, these are insufficient to divide them into two separate species. Thus, we consider them conspecific in the present study.

Distribution. China (Yunnan, Guangxi Prov.) and Vietnam (Quang Binh, Bac Giang Prov.).