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Natta chionogaster

  • 1. Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, P. O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300 South Africa;

Description

Natta chionogaster (Simon, 1901)

Cyllobelus chionogaster Simon, 1901 b: 151; Peckham & Peckham 1903: 195, pl. 21, fig. 1; Simon 1909:419.

Cyllobelus australis Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 194, pl. 21, fig. 2.

Natta chionogastra: PrÓszyŃski 1985: 80, figs 39–41, 45, 47; Wesołowska 1993: 18, figs 1–16; Haddad & Wesołowska 2011: 89, figs 74, 75.

Wesołowska (1993) described both sexes.

Material examined: Butha-Buthe district: 1♀ Butha-Buthe, 28°46'S 28°14'E, 1780 m, under rocks, sandstone ridge, 14.xii.2012, leg. J. van Niekerk (NCA 2013 / 2355), 3♂ (NCA 2013 / 2372). Qacha’s Nek district: 1♂ 1 imm. Near Maghoareng village, 30°03'S 28°53'E, 2200 m, under rocks on mountainside, 6.xi.2003 (NCA 2013 / 3092); 1♀ Sehlabathebe National Park, 29°53'S 29°07'E, 2940 m, under rocks, mountainside, 15.i.2013, leg. J. van Niekerk (NCA 2013 / 2381).

Distribution: A species known from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia and South Africa. Recorded here from three localities in eastern Lesotho (Fig. 93).

Notes

Published as part of Wesołowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2014, An overview of the jumping spiders of Lesotho (Araneae: Salticidae), with descriptions of six new species, pp. 229 in African Invertebrates 55 (2) on page 255, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7680935

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NCA
Material sample ID
2013, 2355, 2372 , 2013, 2381 , 2013, 3092
Event date
2003-11-06 , 2012-12-14 , 2013-01-15
Verbatim event date
2003-11-06/2013-01-15
Scientific name authorship
Simon
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Salticidae
Genus
Natta
Species
chionogaster
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Natta chionogaster (Simon, 1901) sec. Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014

References

  • PECKHAM, G. W. & PECKHAM, E. G. 1903. New species of the family Attidae from South Africa. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14: 173 - 278.
  • PROSZYNSKI, J. 1985. On Siler, Silerella, Cyllobelus and Natta (Araneae, Salticidae). Annales zoologici, Warszawa 39: 69 - 85.
  • HADDAD, C. R. & WESOLOWSKA, W. 2011. New species and new records of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from central South Africa. African Invertebrates 52: 51 - 134.