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 Goleba puella (Simon, 1885) Figs 53–61 Asamonea puella : Simon 1885: 27 ; Roewer 1965: 4 , figs 5a–c. Asemonea puella : Clark 1974: 12 , figs 2, 3. Goleba puella : Wanless 1980: 246 , figs 22a–e, 23a–c, 29. Redescription: Measurements (male/female): Carapace length 2.5/2.5, width 1.9/1.9, height 0.8/0.7. Abdomen length 3.2/4.5, width 1.3/2.2. Eye field length 0.8/0.8, anterior width 1.3/1.2, posterior width 0.9/1.0. Male. General appearance as in Fig. 53 . Carapace pear-shaped, yellowish (probably green in live specimens), with black rings surrounding eyes (except anterior medians), and traces of parallel brownish stripes on the thoracic part; eyes placed in four rows, posterior median eyes relatively large (as in other Lyssomaninae spiders), all eyes on high tubercles; fovea sulciform; clypeus medium high, with band composed of reddish hairs ( Fig. 54 ), band extending to lateral margins of carapace. Mouthparts and sternum yellow. Chelicerae pluridentate, four teeth on promargin and five on retromargin, dorsal surface of chelicerae with transverse brown band ( Fig. 54 ). Abdomen narrower than carapace, elongate, yellow, with poorly defined pattern formed by reddish hairs; venter pale; spinnerets yellow. Legs slender, long, especially long metatarsi; legs yellowish, only femora with brown stripes on prolateral surfaces; spines numerous, robust, long. Pedipalps pale; palpal femur with big ventral tubercle ( Fig. 59 ); cymbium narrow terminally ( Fig. 58 ); tibia with ventral and retrolateral apophyses, the latter one hooked ( Figs 57, 58 ); tegulum irregular, with median tegular apophysis and two small lobes ( Fig. 56 ); spermophore meandering, embolus stout ( Figs 55, 56 ). Female. Slightly larger than male, abdomen not as slender; whole body yellowish white, only eye rings blackish. Epigyne rounded, shown in Fig. 60 ; internal structure as in Fig. 61 ; accessory glands very long, tubule-like. Material examined: 1ơ 1^Main Camp, 26 ° 54.581'S : 32 ° 18.798'E , broadleaf woodland, beats, short bushes, 6.vii.2000 ( NMBA 11597 ); 1^Near pump, Pongola R . floodplain, 26 ° 54.323'S : 32 ° 19.435'E , riverine forest, beating foliage, 27.vi.2006 ( NCA 2006 /1214); 1ơ 1^26 ° 51.908'S : 32 ° 14.458'E , subtropical bush, Mahemane thicket, beats, foliage, 2.xii.2000 ( NCA 2008 /2038) . Distribution: Species hitherto known from Angola , Congo , Ghana and Kenya ; recorded for the first time from South Africa . Habitat and biology: This pale green species was occasionally collected from foliage of woody plants in BW, RF and ST.