Artoria ligulacea (Qu, Peng & Yin, 2009) Figs 7–8, 11 Hygrolycosa ligulacea Qu et al., 2009: 71, figs 1a–c, 2a–d (♂ ♀). Artoria ligulacea: Li et al. 2012: 40, figs 4A–I, 5A–E (♂ ♀). Diagnosis. This species resembles A. parvula Thorell, 1877 (Figs 9–10), but can be distinguished from the latter by the distal end of median apophysis somewhat like the head of a cobra snake, with bent tip (Figs 7A–B, 8D–E), whereas distal end curved triangular with ventrally bent tip in A. parvula (Figs 9A–B, 10D–E), basoembolic apophysis longer than wide, highly sclerotized (Figs 7A, C, 8D, F), whereas almost round and not sclerotized in A. parvula (Figs 9A, C, 10D–F). Posterior margin of epigyne straight (Figs 7D–E, 8G–H), whereas posterior margin with a depression in A. parvula (Figs 9D–E, 10G–H). Spermathecal head not furcated (Figs 7E, 8H), whereas furcated into two branches in A. parvula (Figs 9E, 10H). Description. See Li et al. (2012) for both sexes. Habitus, male pedipalp, and epigyne as in Figs 7–8. Material examined. CHINA: Yunnan Province: 5♂ and 10♀, Baoshan Prefecture, Longyang District, Luji- ang Town, Dasheyao Bealock, 24°55.665′N, 98°45.112′E, 2363 m, 13–14.II.2011, Z.X. Li & L.Y. Wang leg.; Sichuan Province: 21♂ and 55♀, Mianning County, Yele National Nature Reserve, 28°52.355′N, 102°09.067′E, 2735 m, 10.V.2012, D. Wang & L.Y. Wang leg.; 1♂ and 61♀, Emeishan City, Emei Mountain, Taiziping, 29°31.612′N, 103°19.812′E, 2841 m, 14.V.2012, D. Wang & L.Y. Wang leg.; Guizhou Province: 3♀, Nayong County, Zhong- zhai Village, 26°41.196′N, 105°22.802′E, 1691 m, 2.VII.2012, D. Wang & X.K. Jiang leg.; 2♀, Nayong Count, Zhangjiawan Town, Dapingqing, 26°40.578′N, 105°28.048′E, 2007 m, 3–4.VII.2012, D. Wang & X.K. Jiang leg.; 21♂ and 17♀, Nayong Count, Zhangjiawan Town, Dapingqing, 26°40.578′N, 105°28.048′E, 2007 m, 15.X.2012, L.Y. Wang, X.K. Jiang & X.W. Meng leg. Distribution. Previously known from Yunnan Province of China only, but here reported from further east and north, to the Guizhou and Sichuan Provinces of China (Fig. 11).

Published as part of Wang, Lu-Yu, Framenau, Volker W. & Zhang, Zhi-Sheng, 2021, A further study on the wolf spider subfamily Artoriinae from China (Araneae: Lycosidae), pp. 571-584 in Zootaxa 4964 (3) on pages 578-579, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4964.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/4714797