Published December 31, 2002 | Version v1

Evarcha certa Rollard & Wesołowska 2002, n. sp.

  • 1. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Laboratoire de Zoologie (Arthropodes), 61 rue Buffon, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) chroll @ mnhn. fr
  • 2. Zoological Institute, Wrocław University, Sienkiewicza 21, PL- 50335 Wrocław (Poland) tomwes @ biol. uni. wroc. pl.

Description

Evarcha certa n. sp.

(Fig. 5)

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: Mountain Tô, meadow, 1200 m a.s.l., 10.XII.1951, leg. M. Lamotte & R. Roy,.

ETYMOLOGY. — The specific name is Latin for “unquestionable”, and accentuates the generic membership of this species.

DIAGNOSIS. — The species is characterised by the structure of the epigyne; seminal ducts longer than in other members of the genus and receptacles composed of only few chambers.

DESCRIPTION

Male unknown.

Female. Measurements: carapace length 2.3, width 1.8, height 0.8. Abdomen length 2.3, width 1.8. Eye field length 1.0, anterior and posterior width 1.6. General appearance as in Fig. 5A. Carapace rather high, with large eye field. Coloration of carapace light brown, ocular area darker, surroundings of eyes black. Few long bristles near eyes, very small yellowish scales surround anterior eyes. Clypeus low, light. Labium light brown with whitish tip, maxillae and sternum orange. Chelicerae light brown, single tooth on retromargin and two teeth on promargin. Abdomen fawnish-yellow with paler pattern (Fig. 5A), venter yellow, only few dark small dots on it. Spinnerets yellowish. Legs yellowish-orange clothed in light hairs. Spines brown. Epigyne oval, rather heavy sclerotized, with copulatory openings placed posteriorly (Fig. 5B). Internal structure shown in Fig. 5C.

Notes

Published as part of Rollard, Christine & Wesołowska, Wanda, 2002, Jumping spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains in Guinea, pp. 283-307 in Zoosystema 24 (2) on page 290, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5394616

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
TYPE, MATERIAL, R
Event date
1951-12-10
Verbatim event date
1951-12-10
Scientific name authorship
Rollard & Wesołowska
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Salticidae
Genus
Evarcha
Species
certa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Evarcha certa Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002