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Phintella aequipes

Description

Phintella aequipes (Peckham & Peckham, 1903)

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).

Notes

Published as part of Wesolowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2009, Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa, pp. 13-103 in African Invertebrates 50 (1) on pages 69-70

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Additional details

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.