<documentid="4CE55AD1451A8891BA3FE64596464A61"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1"ID-ISSN="1175-5334"ID-Zenodo-Dep="14595436"ID-ZooBank="0F942970-010E-4775-856E-31CA016DAD50"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.tables_requiresApprovalFor="GgImagineBatch"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatmentCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1735931741530"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Haddad, Charles Richard, Wiśniewski, Konrad & Wesołowska, Wanda"docDate="2024"docId="03FF87E70C1B0058DAE382E4B290FA9C"docLanguage="en"docName="zootaxa.5560.1.1.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 5560 (1)"docSource="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1"docStyle="DocumentStyle:5EBBA59367AD13919D70D935FA04F6A3.19:Zootaxa.2013-.monograph"docStyleId="5EBBA59367AD13919D70D935FA04F6A3"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.monograph"docStyleVersion="19"docTitle="Phintella elegans Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="51"masterDocId="FFC6FF9F0C29006ADA748055B129FF90"masterDocTitle="The jumping spiders of Mozambique (Araneae: Salticidae)"masterLastPageNumber="92"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="51"updateTime="1735934017513"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:affiliationid="CF6BDAEA6AB424B9F97E43A14298E03A">Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, P. O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa & Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51 - 148 Wrocław, Poland & Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, P. O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa & wanda. h. wesolowska @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4411 - 1058 * Corresponding author</mods:affiliation>
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<figureCitationid="136D2A740C1B0058DAE38283B1CEFD61"box="[151,231,726,753]"captionStart="FIGURE 35"captionStartId="51.[151,250,1932,1956]"captionTargetBox="[151,1435,306,1829]"captionTargetId="figure-62@51.[151,1436,306,1906]"captionTargetPageId="51"captionText="FIGURE 35. Phintella elegans sp. nov., holotype female. A. General appearance, dorsal view; B, C. Epigyne; D. Internal structure of epigyne."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14595528"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14595528/files/figure.png"pageId="50"pageNumber="51">Fig. 35</figureCitation>
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<figureCitationid="136D2A740C1B0058DEB08387B403FC7D"box="[1220,1322,978,1005]"captionStart="FIGURE 35"captionStartId="51.[151,250,1932,1956]"captionTargetBox="[151,1435,306,1829]"captionTargetId="figure-62@51.[151,1436,306,1906]"captionTargetPageId="51"captionText="FIGURE 35. Phintella elegans sp. nov., holotype female. A. General appearance, dorsal view; B, C. Epigyne; D. Internal structure of epigyne."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14595528"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14595528/files/figure.png"pageId="50"pageNumber="51">Fig. 35A</figureCitation>
. Carapace brown, with lighter median streak on thoracic part, diminutive white scales on slopes. Eyes surrounded by black rings, some white hairs between anterior eyes. Mouthparts brown, with pale tips, sternum yellow in centre and brown marginally. Abdomen yellowish, with thin median greyish-beige strip and wider streaks laterally (Fig.), venter light yellow, with wide greyish-beige median streak and some patches on sides. Spinnerets grey. Legs yellow, their hairs light, spines brown. Epigyne as in
<figureCitationid="136D2A740C1B0058D85284D3B387FB30"box="[550,686,1158,1185]"captionStart="FIGURE 35"captionStartId="51.[151,250,1932,1956]"captionTargetBox="[151,1435,306,1829]"captionTargetId="figure-62@51.[151,1436,306,1906]"captionTargetPageId="51"captionText="FIGURE 35. Phintella elegans sp. nov., holotype female. A. General appearance, dorsal view; B, C. Epigyne; D. Internal structure of epigyne."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14595528"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14595528/files/figure.png"pageId="50"pageNumber="51">Fig. 35B, C</figureCitation>
, two rounded copulatory openings with strongly sclerotized rims. Seminal ducts short, close to each other, spermathecae large, spherical, with large accessory glands in their walls (
<figureCitationid="136D2A740C1B0058DAEB849BB021FB79"box="[159,264,1230,1257]"captionStart="FIGURE 35"captionStartId="51.[151,250,1932,1956]"captionTargetBox="[151,1435,306,1829]"captionTargetId="figure-62@51.[151,1436,306,1906]"captionTargetPageId="51"captionText="FIGURE 35. Phintella elegans sp. nov., holotype female. A. General appearance, dorsal view; B, C. Epigyne; D. Internal structure of epigyne."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14595528"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14595528/files/figure.png"pageId="50"pageNumber="51">Fig. 35D</figureCitation>