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Pignus pongola Wesolowska & Haddad 2009

  • 1. haddadcr @ ufs. ac. za; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2317 - 7760
  • 2. Institute of Biology, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Arciszewskiego 22 a, 76 - 200 Słupsk, Poland & konrad. wisniewski. araneae @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6780 - 3292
  • 3. Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, P. O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa & Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51 - 148 Wrocław, Poland & Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, P. O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa & wanda. h. wesolowska @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4411 - 1058 * Corresponding author

Description

Pignus pongola Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009

Fig. 38

Pignus pongola Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 73, figs 147–151, 224 (♂).

Material examined. MOZAMBIQUE: Gaza: Chidenguele, Paraiso de Chidenguele, 24°57.276’S, 34°11.276’E, beating shrubs, dune forest, 15.XII.2007, leg. R. Lyle, R. Fourie & C. Haddad, 1♂ (NCA 2020 /135), 1♂ (NCA 2020 /139). Inhambane: Morrungulo, Morrungulo Resort, 23°13.983’S, 32°29.587’E, beating shrubs, dune forest, 6.XII.2007, leg. R. Lyle & R. Fourie, 1♂ (NCA 2020 /159). Niassa: Niassa Reserve, Nalikunye River, 12.1427°S, 38.24367°E, inselberg slope, miombo, 30.X.2005, leg. K. Beeg, 1♂ (NCA 2024 /7).

Description. For a description of the male see Wesołowska & Haddad (2009); female unknown. Chelicera and palpal organ and as in Fig. 38A–C.

Distribution. Previously known only from northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, recorded for the first time from Mozambique.

Notes

Published as part of Haddad, Charles Richard, Wiśniewski, Konrad & Wesołowska, Wanda, 2024, The jumping spiders of Mozambique (Araneae: Salticidae), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 5560 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14595436

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NCA
Material sample ID
NCA 2020 , NCA 2024
Event date
2005-10-30 , 2007-12-06 , 2007-12-15
Verbatim event date
2005-10-30 , 2007-12-06 , 2007-12-15
Scientific name authorship
Wesolowska & Haddad
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Salticidae
Genus
Pignus
Species
pongola
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pignus pongola Wesolowska, 2009 sec. Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024

References

  • Wesolowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2009) Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates, 50, 13 - 103. https: // doi. org / 10.5733 / afin. 050.0102