<documentid="0D5D7120095DDA0C31B1FFF65CB82176"ID-DOI="10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647"ID-ISSN="2118-9773"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13752285"ID-ZooBank="00BEAF45-3564-4079-BB79-504FF82966C6"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="juliana"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.tables_requiresApprovalFor="GgImagineBatch"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatmentCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="juliana"checkinTime="1726129328963"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Wiśniewski, Konrad & Wesołowska, Wanda"docDate="2024"docId="039D879DFF28FF41336B5853FE90F9F8"docLanguage="en"docName="EJT.2024.952.1-171.pdf"docOrigin="European Journal of Taxonomy 952"docSource="https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2647/12221"docStyle="DocumentStyle:EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911.14:EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleId="EF2B578F1D15862ADE45B0C07C620911"docStyleName="EJT.2018-.journal_article.type1"docStyleVersion="14"docTitle="Thiratoscirtus spinifer Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="1"lastPageNumber="138"masterDocId="FFA4FFE5FFAFFFC8310A5C26FFA9FFA3"masterDocTitle="Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda - revised list, new species and distributional data"masterLastPageNumber="171"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="136"updateTime="1726658924067"updateUser="juliana"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-4.0"zenodo-license-figures="CC-BY-4.0"zenodo-license-treatments="UNSPECIFIED">
<mods:titleid="20C1002D32A9F59C13BF8D5EA3891121">Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda - revised list, new species and distributional data</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="710A3F210848135B2CF098DBF96C827E">Institute of Biology, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Arciszewskiego 22 a, 76 - 200 Słupsk, Poland.</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="993BF989749FF2DB0AC0614109419AD3">Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51 - 148 Wrocław, Poland.</mods:affiliation>
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The male of this species is distinctive by the presence of a stout spine on the retrolateral side of the cymbium.The palp is slightly similar to that in
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<bibRefCitationid="EFA54B7AFF28FF4F35D6596BFF53FA29"author="Wesolowska W. & Haddad C. R."pageId="135"pageNumber="136"pagination="177 - 240"refId="ref54463"refString="Wesolowska W. & Haddad C. R. 2013. New data on the jumping spiders of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). African Invertebrates 54 (1): 177 - 240. https: // doi. org / 10.5733 / afin. 054.0111"type="journal article"year="2013">Wesołowska, 2013</bibRefCitation>
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, but the embolus in the newly described species is clearly longer (one and a half times surrounding the bulb, while in the latter species the embolus forms an incomplete circle) and with a bicuspid tibial apophysis (pointed in the other species).
<paragraphid="8B8B368BFF28FF4F31B75A02FBDAF99D"blockId="135.[189,1139,1572,1599]"box="[189,1139,1572,1599]"pageId="135"pageNumber="136">The specific name refers to the presence of a conspicuous thorn on the cymbium.</paragraph>
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<figureCitationid="130F2A0EFF28FF4F30E05BE8FDD4F84B"box="[490,637,1998,2024]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="136.[189,232,1926,1952]"captionTargetBox="[194,1398,529,1900]"captionTargetId="figure-90@136.[189,1398,529,1900]"captionTargetPageId="136"captionText="Fig. 88. Thiratoscirtus spinifer sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (NHM). A. General appearance, dorsal view. B. General appearance, dorsolateral view. C. General appearance, frontal view. D. Palpal organ, ventral view. E. Palpal organ, ventrolateral view. F. Palpal organ, lateral view. G. Palpal organ, dorsal view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13752543"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13752543/files/figure.png"pageId="135"pageNumber="136">Fig. 88A–B.</figureCitation>
. Oval, brown, fovea clearly marked, eyes with black rings. Dorsum covered with faint transparent hairs, sides with white stripes, some longer bristles near eyes, a few white hairs between anterior median eyes. Chelicera long, unidentate. Mouthparts brown with light tips, sternum yellow.
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<figureCitationid="130F2A0EFF26FF41303058EAFE00FB44"box="[314,425,1228,1255]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="136.[189,232,1926,1952]"captionTargetBox="[194,1398,529,1900]"captionTargetId="figure-90@136.[189,1398,529,1900]"captionTargetPageId="136"captionText="Fig. 88. Thiratoscirtus spinifer sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (NHM). A. General appearance, dorsal view. B. General appearance, dorsolateral view. C. General appearance, frontal view. D. Palpal organ, ventral view. E. Palpal organ, ventrolateral view. F. Palpal organ, lateral view. G. Palpal organ, dorsal view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13752543"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13752543/files/figure.png"pageId="137"pageNumber="138">Fig. 88B</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="130F2A0EFF26FF41356559B0FAAAFA13"box="[1135,1283,1430,1456]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="136.[189,232,1926,1952]"captionTargetBox="[194,1398,529,1900]"captionTargetId="figure-90@136.[189,1398,529,1900]"captionTargetPageId="136"captionText="Fig. 88. Thiratoscirtus spinifer sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (NHM). A. General appearance, dorsal view. B. General appearance, dorsolateral view. C. General appearance, frontal view. D. Palpal organ, ventral view. E. Palpal organ, ventrolateral view. F. Palpal organ, lateral view. G. Palpal organ, dorsal view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13752543"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13752543/files/figure.png"pageId="137"pageNumber="138">Figs 88F–G</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="130F2A0EFF26FF4133E4599FFCFEFA70"box="[750,855,1465,1491]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="136.[189,232,1926,1952]"captionTargetBox="[194,1398,529,1900]"captionTargetId="figure-90@136.[189,1398,529,1900]"captionTargetPageId="136"captionText="Fig. 88. Thiratoscirtus spinifer sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (NHM). A. General appearance, dorsal view. B. General appearance, dorsolateral view. C. General appearance, frontal view. D. Palpal organ, ventral view. E. Palpal organ, ventrolateral view. F. Palpal organ, lateral view. G. Palpal organ, dorsal view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13752543"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13752543/files/figure.png"pageId="137"pageNumber="138">Figs 88F</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="130F2A0EFF26FF41333759FAFD67FA55"box="[573,718,1500,1526]"captionStart="Fig"captionStartId="136.[189,232,1926,1952]"captionTargetBox="[194,1398,529,1900]"captionTargetId="figure-90@136.[189,1398,529,1900]"captionTargetPageId="136"captionText="Fig. 88. Thiratoscirtus spinifer sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (NHM). A. General appearance, dorsal view. B. General appearance, dorsolateral view. C. General appearance, frontal view. D. Palpal organ, ventral view. E. Palpal organ, ventrolateral view. F. Palpal organ, lateral view. G. Palpal organ, dorsal view."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13752543"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13752543/files/figure.png"pageId="137"pageNumber="138">Figs 88D–E</figureCitation>