New species of Rogmocrypta Simon, 1900 from New Caledonia, with remarks on relationships and distribution (Araneae, Salticidae)
Author
Patoleta, Barbara M.
Author
Gardzinska, Joanna
Author
Żabka, Marek
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ZooKeys
2017
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.697.13381
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.697.13381
1313-2970-697-73
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Rogmocrypta karolinae
sp. n.
Figures 10-15, 44
Material.
1♀ holotype, New Caledonia:
Mandjelia
(
164°32'E
,
20°24'S
), 600m elev., rainforest, pitfalls, October 1992-17 February 1993, Raven R, Guillbert E, QM S44894; 1♀, paratype, same data as holotype; 3♀, New Caledonia:
Mandjelia
(1
64°32'E
20°24'S
), pitfalls, 13
May-October
1992, Raven R, Guillbert E, Ingram G, QM S37722.
Figures 10-15.
Rogmocrypta karolinae
sp. n. (female holotype). 10 Dorsal view (arrows indicate patches of white scales being distinctive diagnostic characters) 11 Lateral view 12 Frontal view 13 Endites and labium 14 Epigyna 15 Vulva. Abbreviations: cd: copulatory duct, co: copulatory opening, fd: fertilisation duct, s: spermatheca. Scale bars: 1 mm (10-13); 1.20 mm (14); 0.08 mm(15).
Etymology.
For Karolina, daughter of Joanna
Gardzinska
.
Diagnosis.
Cephalothorax and abdomen with distinctive patches of white scales (Figs 10-11). Copulatory openings closer to each other than in
R. elegans
(Fig. 15). Spermathecae horizontal (Figs 14-15).
Description.
Female holotype. Cephalothorax brown with darker cephalic part, with patches of scales (Fig. 10). Abdomen greyish brown, with three pairs of patches covered with white scales. Spinnerets whitish. Chelicerae with single retromargin 5-cuspidate tooth. Clypeus narrow (17% of AME diameter), covered with sparse white hairs. Labium and endites brown with lighter chewing margins. Sternum and venter greyish brown. Legs light brown, tibiae and metatarsi with darker bands (Fig. 12), metatarsi and patellae covered by white scales. Epigyne copulatory openings oriented towards each other, copulatory ducts sinuous, spermathecae C-shaped, close to each other (Fig. 15). Dimensions. CL 1.23, CW 0.95, CH 0.54, EFL 0.55, AEW 0.97, PEW 0.85, AL 1.15, AW 1.05, LI: 3.42, LII: 1.99, LIII: 1.70, LIV: 2.61.
Male unknown.
Distribution.
Known from type locality only (Fig. 44).