Sinartoria nanling, Lu & Zhang & Wang, 2025

Lu, Jin-Zhen, Zhang, Zhi-Sheng & Wang, Lu-Yu, 2025, Three new species of the wolf spider genus Sinartoria Wang, Framenau & Zhang, 2021 (Araneae, Lycosidae) from southern China, ZooKeys 1244, pp. 213-223 : 213-223

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1244.149186
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:46DA6050-166E-4DD4-A49E-EEB9B0DED238
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15856155
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scientific name	Sinartoria nanling
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Sinartoria nanling sp. nov.

Figs 7 View Figure 7 , 8 (南岭华阿狼蛛 View Figure 8 )

Type material.

Holotype • ♀ ( SWUC -T-LY-24-01 ), China, Guangdong, Shaoguan City, Nanling Forest Park , July 2016, G. C. Zhou leg.

Etymology.

The specific name is derived from the type locality; a noun in apposition.

Diagnosis.

Female of Sinartoria nanling sp. nov. resembles S. maolan sp. nov. in having the small septum and spermathecal head subglobular (Figs 7 A, B View Figure 7 , 8 B, C View Figure 8 ; Figs 5 A, B View Figure 5 , 6 B, C View Figure 6 ), but can be differentiated from the latter by long spermathecal stalks, unconnected at the base (Figs 7 B View Figure 7 , 8 C View Figure 8 ; vs. short, connected at the base) and elliptical fertilization ducts (Figs 7 B View Figure 7 , 8 C View Figure 8 ; vs. proximally eggplant-shaped).

Description.

Female holotype (Fig. 8 A View Figure 8 ) total length 4.78. Carapace 2.45 long, 1.80 wide; opisthosoma 2.18 long, 1.73 wide. Eye sizes and interdistances: AME 0.08, ALE 0.06, PME 0.32, PLE 0.25; AME – AME 0.10, AME – ALE 0.09, PME – PME 0.23, PME – PLE 0.26. Clypeus height 0.09. Chelicerae yellow brown. Leg measurements: I 6.97 (1.97, 2.52, 1.59, 0.89); II 6.29 (1.78, 2.16, 1.55, 0.80); III 5.99 (1.65, 1.92, 1.62, 0.80); IV 8.80 (2.31, 2.77, 2.62, 1.10). Leg formula: 4123. Opisthosoma oval.

Epigyne (Figs 7 View Figure 7 , 8 B, C View Figure 8 ). Septum extends posteriorly. Spermathecal stalks long, unconnected at the base. Spermathecal subglobular. Fertilization ducts large, elliptical.

Male. Unknown.

Habitat.

Beneath the humus stratum in deciduous broadleaf forests.

Distribution.

Known only from the type locality, Guangdong, China (Fig. 9 View Figure 9 ).