Jumping spiders of the tribe Lapsiini Maddison (Salticidae: Spartaeinae) from Colombia: new species and records Author Muñoz-Charry, Valentina 0000-0003-1868-4108 Laboratorio Biomics, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. v. munoz 10 @ uniandes. edu. co; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1868 - 4108 v.munoz10@uniandes.edu.co Author Galvis, William Grupo de Investigación en Aracnología y Miriapodología (GAM-UN), Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá, Colombia. Author Martínez, Leonel Grupo de Investigación Biodiversidad del Caribe Colombiano, Semillero de Investigación Sistemática de Artrópodos Neotropicales, Departamento de Biología, Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia. text Zootaxa 2022 2022-04-28 5129 3 356 373 journal article 55825 10.11646/zootaxa.5129.3.2 1133476c-ac33-478d-83d3-e5f7706c7bd6 1175-5326 6501126 38886994-C718-49EE-B9FC-0EAFADD7D5D1 Lapsias walekeru sp. nov. Figs 27–31 , 57 Type material. Holotype : ♂ from San Pedro Alto , Barrancas , La Guajira , Colombia , 1886 m , 10.83413°N , 72.66911°W , 3.III.2016 , M. Gutiérrez (ICN-Ar 10813). Etymology. Named after the Wayuu mythical character “Wale’kerü”, a spider that teach the art of knitting to Wayuu womens. The Wayuu or Guajiro language, of the Arawakan family of languages, belongs to the Wayuu people, a native American ethnic group that inhabits the region of the type locality. To be treated as an arbitrary combination of letters, and hence without the need to agree in gender with the genus. Diagnosis. Males of L. walekeru sp. nov. can be recognized from those of the remaining species in the genus by their longer and thick dorsal tibial apophysis (dTa) that overpass two thirds of the cymbium, hook–like median apophysis (ma) located posteriorly in the retrolateral side of the bulb ( Figs 28–31 ). Description. Male ( holotype ). Total length: 5.25. Carapace brown with a lateral stripe of white setae, 2.72 long, 1.93 wide, 1.90 high ( Fig. 27 ). OC light brown with eyes on dark marks and white setae, 1.32 long. Anterior eye row 1.74 wide and posterior 1.71 wide. Sternum yellow, 1.15 long, 0.93 wide. Labium yellow, 0.41 long, 0.57 wide. Chelicerae dark brown, with a beard of white setae, with one retromarginal and three promarginal teeth. Palp brown, with a strong embolus (e) arising prolaterally, median apophysis (ma) placed posteriorly, long and thick dorsal tibial apophysis (dTa) ( Figs 28–31 ). Leg formula: 4132, all brown with yellow marks. Leg macrosetae: femur, I–IV d 1 di, p 2 di; patella, I–II p 1 me; III–IV d 2 me; tibia, I v 2–2–2, p 0–0–1; II v 1–2–2; II p 1–0–1; III v 2–0–2, p 0–0–1, r 1–1–0; IV v 1–0–1, p 1–0–1, r 1–1–0; metatarsus, I–II v 2–0–2, p 0–1–1; II r 1–1–0; III v 2–0–2, p 1–1–2, r 1–1–2; IV v 1–0–2, p 1–2–2, r 1–1–2. Abdomen yellowish with a disperse pattern of brown spots ( Fig. 27 ). Female. Unknown. Distribution and Comments. Known only from its type locality ( Fig. 57 ). The type specimens were collected beating low vegetation, in a high-Andean moist forest.