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 1 13 103 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 .