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Ectatosticta deltshevi Platnick & Jäger, 2009 Figures 1F, 7A–C, 15C, 16C, 17D, 19 Ectatosticta davidi: Li & Zhu 1984: 510, figs a–g (♂ ♀); Forster, Platnick & Gray 1987: 23, figs 6–16, 18–20, 23–24, 31–36, 78–82 (♂ ♀); Song, Zhu & Chen 1999: 41, figs 11D, 17Q– T (♂ ♀); Hu 2001: 69, figs 1.1–6 (♂ ♀); Song, Zhu & Chen 2001: 64, figs 24A–E (♂ ♀). Ectatosticta deltshevi Platnick & Jäger, 2009: 214; Lin & Li 2020: 20, figs 1, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6A–C, 7A–B (♂ ♀). Material examined. 1 male and 1 female, China, Qinghai Province, Huangyuan County, 10 September 1983, Z.S. Li leg.; 12 females, Huangyuan County, 36°40′50″ N, 101°15′37″ E, elev. 2620 m, 26 July 2018, L.Y. Wang and Y.N. Mu leg. Diagnosis. Male of this species resembles E. rulai Lin & Li, 2021 (Figs 10A–C, 15F–G, 16F–G) in having two strong setae on cymbial lobe, but differs from the latter by the short embolic base and the thin conductor (Figs 7A–C, 15C, 16C). Female of this species resembles E. yukuni Lin & Li, 2021 (Fig. 18F) in having two pairs of spermathecae, and ventral spermathecae two times longer than dorsal spermathecae, but differs from the latter by the strong ventral spermathecae (Fig. 17D). Description. See Forster, Platnick & Gray (1987) as E. davidi. Habitus, male palp and female genitalia as in Figs 1F, 7A–C, 15C, 16C, 17D. Distribution. China (Qinghai) (Fig. 19).

Published as part of Wang, Lu-Yu, Zhao, Jing-Xia, Irfan, Muhammad & Zhang, Zhi-Sheng, 2021, Review of the spider genus Ectatosticta Simon, 1892 (Araneae: Hypochilidae) with description of four new species from China, pp. 523-542 in Zootaxa 5016 (4) on pages 529-530, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5016.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5222521