﻿A new species of Sinopoda from China, with first description of the male of S.wuyiensis Liu, 2021 (Araneae, Sparassidae)

﻿Abstract One new species of the genus Sinopoda Jäger, 1999, S.muyuensissp. nov. (♂, ♀), is described and figured from the Shennongjia Forestry District, Hubei Province, China. In addition, the male of Sinopodawuyiensis Liu, 2021 is described for the first time from the Wuyishan National Nature Reserve, Fujian Province, China.


Introduction
The genus Sinopoda was established by Jäger (1999). As currently recognised, it comprises 137 species, of which 71 species were recorded from China, representing 51.8% of the global species [World Spider Catalog (WSC) 2022]. The genus has been reported from East Asia (85 species in China, Japan, and Korea), Southeast Asia (50 species in Brunei, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam) and South Asia (a single species in India) (Zhang et al. 2021).
We have found two Sinopoda species present in collections from China in the past year. The discovery of one of these species, Sinopoda muyuensis sp. nov. from Hubei represents the first record of this species in Shennongjia Forestry District. Furthermore, specimens of Sinopoda wuyiensis Liu, 2021 from Fujian have allowed us to provide the first description of the male of the species.

Materials and methods
Specimens were examined and measured with an Olympus SZX7 stereomicroscope. Positions of tegular appendages are given according to clock positions, based on the left palp in ventral view. Male and female copulatory organs were examined and illustrated after dissection from the spider bodies; vulvae were cleared in a warm 10% potassium hydroxide (KOH) solution. All photographs were captured with a KUY NICE industrial digital camera (20.0 megapixels) mounted on an Olympus CX43 dissecting microscope, and assembled using Helicon Focus 3.10.3 image stacking software. Photographic images were then edited using Adobe Photoshop CC 2018. All measurements were obtained using an Olympus SZX7 stereomicroscope and are given in millimetres (mm).
Palp as in Fig. 1. Cymbium distinctly longer than tibia. Embolus S-shaped, arising from tegulum at nearly the 6-o' clock-position in ventral view. Conductor arising at 12-to 1-o' clock-position from tegulum. RTA arising mesially to distally from tibia, with distinct brush of stiff setae. dRTA slender, finger-shaped, vRTA roughly rectangular in retrolateral view.
Distribution. Known only from the type locality (Fig. 6).    than the embolus, and the dRTA about twice as long as the vRTA in ventral view. Females of S. wuyiensis may be recognised by the following combination of characters: epigynal field almost fusiform, lateral lobes fused without visible seam, with their anterior and posterior margins almost parallel, and glandular appendages laterad, as wide as posterior part of spermathecae (Fig. 3).
Palp as in Fig. 3A-C. Cymbium ~ 2× longer than tibia in ventral view. Embolus slightly curved, arising from tegulum at nearly the 6-o' clock-position in ventral view. Conductor curving distally, arising at 12-to 1-o'clock-position from tegulum. Spermophore almost straight. RTA arising mesially to distally from tibia, with distinct brush of stiff setae. vRTA wider than dRTA, dRTA long, in ventral view proximal part wide and tip tapering.
Distribution. Known only from the type locality (Fig. 6).