Solenysa macrodonta Wang, Ono & Tu 2015

Solenysa macrodonta Wang, Ono & Tu, 2015 Figs 7 A-J, 11 C, D Solenysa macrodonta Wang et al., 2015: 48, figs 3 A, 4 C, D (♂ ♀). Material examined. Japan: Hiroshima Pref., • 1 ♂, 6 ♀, Kure City, Yasuuracho Oaza Akozaka, 209 m, 34.31089°N, 132.72896°E, thick and rather dry broadleaf forest leaf litter on a steep slope, 04. Aug. 2022, F. Ballarin leg. (FBPC). Diagnosis. See Wang et al. (2015). Description. Habitus of male as in Fig. 7 E, habitus of female as in Fig. 7 F. Palp as in Fig. 7 A-D, embolic division as in Fig. 11 C, D; epigyne and vulva as in Fig. 7 G-J. See Wang et al. (2015) for a detailed description. Type locality. Nishida, Yunotsu City, Shimane Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (35.084°N, 132.401°E). Remarks. Solenysa macrodonta is distributed in the Chugoku area in Western Honshu with a few known records from Shimane and Okayama Prefectures (Shinkai et al. 2024). Here we report for the first time its presence in Hiroshima Prefecture (Fig. 13). Our male sample differs from the original description by having a shorter anterior protrusion (AP, central tooth in Wang et al. 2015) (cf. Fig. 11 C, D vs Wang et al. 2015: fig. 6 B). However, it shares the shape of the lamella with a transparent, upper branch of the LA 2 ending with a wide, fringed tip. Additionally, we found no differences in the females’ morphology and the barcode of our samples matches those available in GenBank for this species collected in the Shimane Prefecture, the type area of the species (Fig. 12). Accordingly, we consider the differences in the male palp as possibly part of the intraspecific diversity of the species. Future comparisons with a larger number of individuals of S. macrodonta from different localities will help to clarify this issue.