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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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.