A new species and records of Diolenius Thorell, 1870 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Guinea
Author
Gardzińska, Joanna
Author
Patoleta, Barbara
text
Zootaxa
2013
3664
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63
68
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3664.1.4
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1175-5326
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Genus
Diolenius
Thorell, 1870
Attus
[part.]: Walckenaer 1837: 402.
Salticus
[part.]: Doleschall 1859: 26.
Diolenius
Thorell 1870: 203
; Keyserling 1883: 1471; Simon 1884: 226–228, 1901: 385, 476, 479, 480; Peckham & Peckham 1886: 265, 272; Strand 1907: 568, 1909: 97; Rainbow 1911: 281; Petrunkevitch 1928: 186; Berland 1932: 103; Prószyński 1990: 116; Gardzińska & Żabka, 2006: 387–433, Bohne et. al. 2011: 1–6.
subg.
Diolenella
: Strand 1907: 568, 1909: 97; Petrunkevitch 1928: 218; Bonnet 1956:
1473–1474
.
Type
species:
Attus phrynoides
Walckenaer, 1837
, subsequently designated by Thorell (1870).
Diagnosis
(after Gardzińska 2004, and Gardzińska & Żabka, 2006). Fissidentate spiders,
4–8.5 mm
long, with more or less myrmecomorph appearance, manifested by the shapes of cephalothorax and abdomen, moderately long pedicel, visible from dorsal view and slender, antenniform distal segments (metatarsi and tarsi) of legs I. In comparison to
Ohilimia
, the closest relative, metatarsi I of both sexes with 5 or 7 pairs of ventral spines (in opposition to 3 pairs in
Ohilimia
), shape of tegulum triangular and flat, tibial apophysis of palpal organ with basal flange, wings of epigyne located laterally and spermathecae relatively larger than distal chambers of insemination ducts. Differs from
Chalcolecta
by trochanters I markedly longer (always longer than coxae), eye tubercles relatively larger, dorsal surface of carapace papillate or granulate (smooth in
Chalcolecta
) and armature of metatarsi I different (in
Chalcolecta
males without spines and females with 3 pairs of ventral spines).