Wulingnus Irfan, Zhang & Peng

Irfan, Muhammad, Zhou, Gu-Chun, Peng, Xian-Jin & Zhang, Zhi-Sheng, 2025, Survey of Linyphiidae spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from some Oriental Regions of China, Megataxa 15 (1), pp. 1-248 : 224

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/megataxa.15.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14990635
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CD8788-8DE4-FF16-4A96-CE52A946FCFC
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Wulingnus Irfan, Zhang & Peng
status	gen. nov.

Treatment

Wulingnus Irfan, Zhang & Peng , gen. n.

(KWeø)

Type species: Wulingnus furcatus sp. n.

Etymology. This genus name derives from the type locality that is located in the Wuling Mountain range. Gender masculine.

Diagnosis. Wulingnus gen. n. can be distinguished from all the other Erigoninae genera by the long, elliptical, transparent convector kidney-shaped, extending forward to form projection apically; embolus filiform, running along the retrolateral margin of the convector ( Figs 202A–D View FIGURE 202 , 203A, B View FIGURE 203 , 204A, B View FIGURE 204 ). Copulatory ducts long, thick, with inverted coiled loop before joining the spermathecae, present mesally on the dorsal plate ( Figs 205A–C View FIGURE 205 ).

Description. Same as for type species.

Remarks. Wulingnus gen. n. seems closely related to the genus Houshenzinus in having the convector in male palp and copulatory duct mid dorsally forming several loops before entering the spermathecae in epigyne ( Figs 291A–D View FIGURE 291 , 292A, B View FIGURE 292 , 293A, B View FIGURE 293 , 294A–C View FIGURE 294 ; Zhao & Li 2014, figs 44A–D, 45A, B, 46A–C), but can be distinguished by the convector kidney-shaped in male palp in Wulingnus gen. n. ( Figs 291A–D View FIGURE 291 , 292A, B View FIGURE 292 , 293A, B View FIGURE 293 ; vs. comma-shaped); copulatory ducts with inverted coiled loops in Wulingnus gen. n. ( Figs 294A–C View FIGURE 294 ; vs. coiled loop in vertical position).