New euophryine jumping spiders from Central and South America (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae)
Author
Zhang, Jun-Xia
Author
Maddison, Wayne P.
text
Zootaxa
2012
3578
1
35
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.209883
1bc33fdf-676b-4ac9-8baf-8f7282e1b671
1175-5326
209883
Genus
Ilargus
Simon, 1901
Diagnosis.
Medium sized spiders with various color and marking patterns. Chelicera with two promarginal teeth and one unident retromarginal tooth. First tibia with three pairs of ventral macrosetae; first metatarsus with two pairs. Male palpal bulb large and wide, with obvious proximal tegular lobe; embolus usually long and coiled; retrolateral tibial apophysis finger-like. Epigynal window present with a median septum. Spermatheca swollen.
Similar in body form to
Coryphasia
, but differs in the one unident retromarginal tooth on chelicera (
Coryphasia
has one bicuspid retromarginal tooth) and the absence of the second spermathecae in the vulva.
Remarks.
Three species have been reported from South
America
(
Platnick 2012
), of which only the
type
species,
Ilargus coccineus
Simon
(see
Simon 1901b
) has been well documented (
Galiano 1963
;
Edwards et al. 2005
). However,
Ilargus
is much more diverse than that. Here we describe six new species discovered during expeditions to
Ecuador
. The placement of these species in
Ilargus
is partly based on unpublished molecular data.