<documentid="F39B34C437AAB8C3BC7693D882F93F96"ID-DOI="10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943"ID-GBIF-Dataset="43f3cb30-26dc-4590-ae7c-a71dbf8b44be"ID-ISSN="2118-9773"ID-Zenodo-Dep="7195354"ID-ZooBank="A1A437F5-095C-43F7-BC18-66D53640F30E"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="tatiana"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatmentCitations_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1665683018768"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Wesołowska, Wanda & Russell-Smith, Anthony"docDate="2022"docId="03FD87C3B111341CFE6A5F49FC5F666B"docLanguage="en"docName="ejt-841_1-143.pdf"docOrigin="European Journal of Taxonomy 841 (1)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943"docStyle="DocumentStyle:EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911.14:EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleId="EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911"docStyleName="EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleVersion="14"docTitle="Menemerus dubius Berland & Millot 1941"docType="treatment"docVersion="10"lastPageNumber="57"masterDocId="FFC4FFBBB1263424FFB95E30FF8D617C"masterDocTitle="Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J. - C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae)"masterLastPageNumber="143"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="56"updateTime="1732576650724"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0"zenodo-license-figures="CC-BY-4.0"zenodo-license-treatments="UNSPECIFIED">
<mods:affiliationid="4BA5384082FD2EF698A69AA52CC2607E">Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51 - 148 Wrocław, Poland.</mods:affiliation>
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<bibRefCitationid="EFC54B24B1113413FD7B5F48FC5560EF"author="Berland L. & Millot J."box="[706,984,376,403]"pageId="55"pageNumber="56"pagination="297 - 423"refId="ref44104"refString="Berland L. & Millot J. 1941. Les araignees de l'Afrique Occidentale Francaise I. - Les salticides. Memoires du Museum national d'histoire naturelle (N. S.) 12: 297 - 423. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 59645843 [accessed 11 Aug. 2022]."type="journal article"year="1941">Berland & Millot, 1941</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="EFC54B24B1113413FE1A5FEDFD7B608B"author="Berland L. & Millot J."box="[419,758,477,503]"pageId="55"pageNumber="56"pagination="297 - 423"refId="ref44104"refString="Berland L. & Millot J. 1941. Les araignees de l'Afrique Occidentale Francaise I. - Les salticides. Memoires du Museum national d'histoire naturelle (N. S.) 12: 297 - 423. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 59645843 [accessed 11 Aug. 2022]."type="journal article"year="1941">Berland & Millot, 1941: 348</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitationid="EFC54B24B1113413FE015C2EFD446345"author="Wesolowska W."box="[440,713,542,569]"pageId="55"pageNumber="56"pagination="251 - 353"refId="ref46952"refString="Wesolowska W. 1999. A revision of the spider genus Menemerus in Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 10 (2): 251 - 353."type="journal article"year="1999">Wesołowska 1999: 344</bibRefCitation>
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, the smallest species in the genus) and striped abdominal pattern. The shape of the epigyne is characteristic, its posterior third part is elongated, V-shaped and with a deep notch.
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MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 1.4, width 0.9, height 0.2. Eye field length 0.7, anterior and posterior width 0.8. Abdomen length 1.7, width 1.0. General appearance as in
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. Very small spider, body strongly flattened.
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<paragraphid="8BEB36D5B11E341CFF045DA0FC11628D"blockId="56.[189,1398,912,1009]"pageId="56"pageNumber="57">CARAPACE. Brown, eye field slightly darker, eyes with black rings. White hairs between anterior eyes and on posterior slope. Lateral slopes with three vertical streaks formed by white hairs. Mouthparts brownish, clypeus clothed in white hairs, sternum light brown.</paragraph>
<paragraphid="8BEB36D5B11E341CFF045A28FE9E6504"blockId="56.[189,1399,1048,1144]"pageId="56"pageNumber="57">ABDOMEN. Oval, variegated, greyish brown with small yellowish marks, long hairs at anterior edge. Three narrow stripes composed of white hairs on dorsum. Venter yellow tinged with grey. Spinnerets yellow.</paragraph>
<paragraphid="8BEB36D5B11E341CFF045A90FD3965A1"blockId="56.[189,1399,1184,1245]"pageId="56"pageNumber="57">LEGS. Yellow, first and second pairs with brown patellae basally and brown lines on tibiae and metatarsi prolaterally. Palps yellow with white hairs.</paragraph>
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was quite cursory and the type specimens are lost,
<bibRefCitationid="EFC54B24B11E341CFF045831FE256767"author="Wesolowska W."box="[189,424,1537,1563]"pageId="56"pageNumber="57"pagination="251 - 353"refId="ref46952"refString="Wesolowska W. 1999. A revision of the spider genus Menemerus in Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 10 (2): 251 - 353."type="journal article"year="1999">Wesołowska (1999)</bibRefCitation>
recognized this species as a nomen dubium. The recording of another specimen and identifying it as identical to the first allowed for its revalidation and redescription. The shape of the epigyne is identical to that shown in
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: fig. 51a). These authors also mentioned that the spider is small. We remove the name
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