The jumping spiders of Mozambique (Araneae: Salticidae)
Author
Haddad, Charles Richard
0000-0002-2317-7760
haddadcr @ ufs. ac. za; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2317 - 7760
haddadcr@ufs.ac.za
Author
Wiśniewski, Konrad
0000-0002-6780-3292
Institute of Biology, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Arciszewskiego 22 a, 76 - 200 Słupsk, Poland & konrad. wisniewski. araneae @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6780 - 3292
konrad.wisniewski.araneae@gmail.com
Author
Wesołowska, Wanda
0000-0002-4411-1058
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
wanda.h.wesolowska@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-12-27
5560
1
1
92
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1
1175-5334
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Plexippus lutescens
Wesołowska, 2011
Fig. 40
Plexippus lutescens
Wesołowska, 2011b: 336
, figs 69, 70, 94 (
♂
).
Diagnosis.
The palpal organ of this species differs from those in congeners in having a very small posterior lobe of the bulb (larger in other species) and diminutive teeth of the serrated keel on the prolateral side of the bulb (larger in others) (
Fig. 40B, D
). The female is unknown.
Material examined.
MOZAMBIQUE
:
Tete
:
IV.1947
, leg.
C.F. Roewer
,
1♂
(
SMF 9933
)
.
Redescription. Male:
Measurements. Cephalothorax length 3.2, width 2.4, height 1.4. Eye field length 1.4, anterior width 2.0, posterior width 1.9. Abdomen length 3.4, width 1.8. General appearance as in
Fig. 40A
. Carapace dark brown, thoracic part slightly lighter medially, eyes surrounding by black area. Long brown bristles at first row of eyes, between these eyes some white hairs, light band composed with white hairs on lateral slopes of carapace. Mouthparts brown, sternum slightly lighter. Some white hairs on clypeus and on chelicerae basally. Abdomen brownish, with wide median yellowish streak, venter yellow, with brown lines laterally. Spinnerets yellow. Legs brown, bearing brown hairs and spines. Palpal organ as in
Fig. 40B–E
, prolateral keel of bulb composed of very small teeth, posterior bulb lobe very small, tibial apophysis short. Cymbium and palpal tibia dorsally clothed in white hairs.
Distribution.
A species previously known from
Namibia
and
Zimbabwe
; this is the first record from
Mozambique
.