Phintella aequipes
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Figs 134, 135
Telamonia aequipes: Peckham & Peckham 1903: 188, pl. 19, fig. 3; Lessert 1925 a: 448, figs 26–30.
Heliophanus clarus: Peckham & Peckham 1903: 190, pl. 21, fig. 6; Wesolowska 1986: 231, figs 873–875. Phintella aequipes: Prószyński 1984: 106; Wesolowska & Cumming 2008: 203, figs 113–121.
See Wesolowska & Cumming (2008) for description of both sexes. Pedipalps shown in Figs 134, 135.
Material examined: 1^Red Cliffs, Usutu R., 26 ° 51.164'S: 32 ° 12.365'E, semiaquatic vegetation, 4.xii.2000 (NCA 2008 /2748); 1ơ Subtropical bush, 26 ° 52.464'S: 32 ° 16.050'E, A. nigrescens woodland, beats, foliage, 8.xii.2000 (NCA 2008 /2749).
Distribution: Widely distributed in southern Africa; reported also from Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
Habitat and biology: This species was collected from foliage of reeds and short shrubs in RF and ST, respectively.
Remarks: Both specimens are bleached, and the male has a slightly shorter embolus than specimens from Zimbabwe (compare Fig. 134 with fig. 116 in Wesolowska & Cumming 2008).
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- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC8F842FFA3FFD97429091ACF5B3324 (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NCA
- Material sample ID
- NCA 2008
- Event date
- 2000-12-04
- Verbatim event date
- 2000-12-04/08
- Scientific name authorship
- Peckham & Peckham
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Salticidae
- Genus
- Phintella
- Species
- aequipes
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Phintella aequipes (Peckham, 1903) sec. Wesolowska & Haddad, 2009
References
- LESSERT, R. DE. 1925 a. Araignees du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 5. Salticidae. Revue suisse de Zoologie 31: 429 - 528.
- WESOLOWSKA, W. 1986. A revision of the genus Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833 (Aranei: Salticidae). Annales zoologici 40: 1 - 254.