New euophryine jumping spiders from Southeast Asia and Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae)
Author
Zhang, Jun-Xia
Author
Maddison, Wayne P.
text
Zootaxa
2012
3581
53
80
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.283062
cfe030a1-ca90-4fbb-aa43-778d1d22f3e1
1175-5326
283062
Genus
Emathis
Simon, 1899
Description.
Medium sized spiders. Chelicera with a fissident retromarginal tooth of multiple cusps. Embolus of male palp coiled for at least half a circle; tegulum lacking proximal lobe. Window of epigynum without obvious median septum. Copulatory duct sometimes convoluted (
Prószyński 1984
;
Barrion & Litsinger 1995
).
Remarks.
Six species have been reported from Southeast Asia (
Platnick 2012
). The species previously described as
Emathis
from the Caribbean Islands have been transferred to the genus
Petemathis
(
Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold 2012
)
. A new species from
Malaysia
is described here.