Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa
Author
Wesolowska, Wanda
Author
Haddad, Charles R.
text
African Invertebrates
2009
2009-06-30
50
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13
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journal article
2305-2562
Massagris natalensis
sp. n.
Figs 93–98
,
218
Etymology: The species is named after the
KwaZulu-Natal Province
.
Diagnosis: The male of the species differs from congeners by the absence of a tibial apophysis and by the shape of the embolus, which is longer than in the other species. Female unknown.
Description:
Male.
Measurements: Carapace length 2.2, width 1.6, height 1.0. Abdomen length 1.9, width 1.3. Eye field length 1.2, anterior width 1.3, posterior width 1.2.
General appearance in
Figs 93
,
218
. Carapace rounded, medium high, gently sloping posteriorly; eye field large, occupying half carapace length, eyes set on well developed tubercles; fovea long, sulciform; carapace brown, vicinity of eyes black, with darker lines radiating from fovea; clypeus low, brown. Labium and endites brownish with light tips, sternum light brown; chelicerae pluridentate, both margins with five small teeth (
Fig. 94
); long, thick bristles form basket-like structure above dorsal surface of chelicerae. Abdomen narrower than carapace, oval, greyish yellow with small brown spots; silver guanine crystals translucent through integument; venter yellow. Legs light brown, first tibia with two pairs of ventral spines, metatarsus with one pair. Pedipalps rather large, brown; palpal organ as in
Figs 95–98
.
Figs 93–98.
Massagris natalensis
sp. n.
, holotype: (93) habitus; (94) cheliceral dentition; (95) palpal organ, ventral view; (96) palpal organ, ventrolateral view; (97) palpal organ, lateral view; (98) palpal organ, dorsal view.
Holotype
: ơ Western shore of Shokwe Pan,
26
°
52.013'S
:
32
°
12.982'E
,
F. sycomorus
forest,
Ficus
bark,
25.xi.2000
(NCA 2009/669).
Paratype
: 1ơ
SOUTH AFRICA
:
KwaZulu-Natal
:
Ophathe Game Reserve
,
Ophathe
R
.
bed,
28
°
22.693'S
:
31
°
24.442'E
, leaf litter,
5.vii.2007
,
C. Haddad
&
R
.
Fourie (
NCA 2007
/2974)
.
Habitat and biology: This species was collected from under bark in
FF
at Shokwe Pan. The
paratype
was collected from leaf litter in a dry river bed at
Ophathe Game Reserve
, approximately
200 km
south of
NGR
, also in savannah
.