Sellanucheza hoffmani Nguyen, 2011
Fig. 5 A – C
Sellanucheza hoffmani Nguyen 2011: 59 (D, K).
Sellanucheza hoffmani – Golovatch 2013 b: 330 (M, K); Nguyen and Sierwald 2013: 1296 (L).
Distribution.
Vietnam, Kon Tum Province, Loxo Pass, ca 80 km north of Kontum, secondary forest, 800 m a. s. l.; Quang Binh Province, Minh Hoa District, Thuong Hoa commune, Phong Nha-Ke Bang region (Nguyen 2011).
Remarks.
This species is currently known only from central Vietnam. Somatically, this species is one of the largest members of the genus (length 52–59 mm, width 5.3–6.4 mm), being comparable in size only to S. grandis. However, it is readily distinguished from all congeners by male sternum 5 showing two separate, small, setose cones between coxae 4, and by the paraterga being small, but complete, represented by keel-shaped ridges demarcated by distinct sulci both dorsally and ventrally. The gonopods are particularly distinctive, the femorite (fe) being long, marginally expanded distad, with the distal part being simultaneously twisted and curved ventrad (Fig. 5 A, B); the postfemoral region bears a long, basal, laminiform process pb (Fig. 5 A – C); and the solenophore (sph) is supplied with a very long, nearly straight, spiniform process pa at the base of the lamina medialis (Fig. 5 A, C).
Publication Date: 2026-06-23