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Asemonea amatola Wesołowska & Haddad 2013, sp. n.

Description

Asemonea amatola sp. n.

Figs 2, 30, 31

Etymology: A noun in apposition, referring to the mountain range in which the type locality is found.

Diagnosis: The female has a distinctive epigynal structure, which is short and broad, with fissured gonopores. Male unknown.

Description:

Female.

Measurements. Cephalothorax: length 2.0, width 1.6. Abdomen: length 2.4, width 1.5. Eye field: length 0.7.

General appearance as in Fig. 2. Small, pale spiders. Carapace pear-shaped, eyes typical for Lyssomaninae, in four rows, situated on high tubercles, posterior median eyes relatively large. Carapace white, with delicate traces of two dark bands on thoracic part; eyes with black rings (except anterior medians). Fovea distinct. Chelicerae with three small teeth on promargin and four on retromargin. Mouthparts and sternum whitish. Abdomen elongate, pale, with traces of dark lateral streaks anteriorly and five small blackish spots in posterior half. Venter pale. Spinnerets white. Delicate short light hairs covering entire body. Legs thin, white. First tibiae with single prolateral spine, two retrolateral and four pairs of ventral spines; metatarsi with three pairs on ventral surface. Pedipalp with six spines (five below and one above). Epigyne large, very broad, blackish, with two large shallow depressions (Fig. 30). Copulatory openings fissured, their surroundings strongly sclerotized (Fig. 31).

Holotype: ♀ SOUTH AFRICA: Eastern Cape: Amatola Mtns, Hogsback, Never Daunted Guest House, 32°35.6'S 26°56.8'E, canopy fogging, mixed garden shrubs, 10.iv.2010, C. Haddad (NCA, 2012/1106).

Distribution: Known only from the type locality (Fig. 35).

Habitat and biology: The species was collected from the canopy of mixed broadleaf trees in a garden.

Notes

Published as part of Wesołowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2013, New data on the jumping spiders of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae), pp. 177 in African Invertebrates 54 (1) on pages 182-184

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Biodiversity

Event date
2010-04-10
Verbatim event date
2010-04-10
Scientific name authorship
Wesołowska & Haddad
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Araneae
Family
Salticidae
Genus
Asemonea
Species
amatola
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Asemonea amatola Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013