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Main Authors: Xu, Xin, Liu, Fengxiang, Ono, Hirotsugu, Chen, Jian, Kuntner, Matjaž, Li, Daiqin
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author Xu, Xin
Liu, Fengxiang
Ono, Hirotsugu
Chen, Jian
Kuntner, Matjaž
Li, Daiqin
author_facet Xu, Xin
Liu, Fengxiang
Ono, Hirotsugu
Chen, Jian
Kuntner, Matjaž
Li, Daiqin
contents <p><b>GENUS <i>RYUTHELA</i> HAUPT, 1983</b></p><p><i>Diagnosis: Ryuthela</i> males can be distinguished from all other Heptathelinae genera by lacking the conductor and by the contrategulum with an elongated spine (i.e. Fig. 8A, C, E). The females differ from <i>Heptathela</i>, <i>Qiongthela</i>, <i>Sinothela</i>, <i>Songthela</i> and <i>Vinathela</i> by one pair of receptacular clusters close to each other (i.e. Fig. 5A–V), located at the anterior margin of the bursa copulatrix, and from <i>Ganthela</i> by receptacular clusters without stems (Xu <i>et al.</i>, 2015b). <i>Ryuthela</i> body length varies from 6.5 to 14.5 mm, and <i>Ryuthela</i> species can have seven or eight spinnerets.</p><p><i>Distribution:</i> <i>Ryuthela</i> species are restricted to Ryukyu archipelago and are found from central Ryukyus (Okinawa group) to southern Ryukyus. <i>Ryuthela</i> species on central Ryukyus share habitats with <i>Heptathela</i> species (Xu <i>et al.</i>, 2016).</p><p><i>Composition:</i> After this revision, <i>Ryuthela</i> contains 15 species.</p><p><i>Remarks:</i> Seven of the 15 delimited species with male and female specimens can be diagnosed from each other morphologically. For the other eight species without males, especially for those that are distributed on the same islands, the species-specific nucleotide changes in the standard DNA barcode alignment were used to augment insufficient morphological diagnoses.</p>
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spellingShingle Ryuthela Haupt 1983
Xu, Xin
Liu, Fengxiang
Ono, Hirotsugu
Chen, Jian
Kuntner, Matjaž
Li, Daiqin
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Heptathelidae
Ryuthela
<p><b>GENUS <i>RYUTHELA</i> HAUPT, 1983</b></p><p><i>Diagnosis: Ryuthela</i> males can be distinguished from all other Heptathelinae genera by lacking the conductor and by the contrategulum with an elongated spine (i.e. Fig. 8A, C, E). The females differ from <i>Heptathela</i>, <i>Qiongthela</i>, <i>Sinothela</i>, <i>Songthela</i> and <i>Vinathela</i> by one pair of receptacular clusters close to each other (i.e. Fig. 5A–V), located at the anterior margin of the bursa copulatrix, and from <i>Ganthela</i> by receptacular clusters without stems (Xu <i>et al.</i>, 2015b). <i>Ryuthela</i> body length varies from 6.5 to 14.5 mm, and <i>Ryuthela</i> species can have seven or eight spinnerets.</p><p><i>Distribution:</i> <i>Ryuthela</i> species are restricted to Ryukyu archipelago and are found from central Ryukyus (Okinawa group) to southern Ryukyus. <i>Ryuthela</i> species on central Ryukyus share habitats with <i>Heptathela</i> species (Xu <i>et al.</i>, 2016).</p><p><i>Composition:</i> After this revision, <i>Ryuthela</i> contains 15 species.</p><p><i>Remarks:</i> Seven of the 15 delimited species with male and female specimens can be diagnosed from each other morphologically. For the other eight species without males, especially for those that are distributed on the same islands, the species-specific nucleotide changes in the standard DNA barcode alignment were used to augment insufficient morphological diagnoses.</p>
title Ryuthela Haupt 1983
topic Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Heptathelidae
Ryuthela
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14805801