New cocalodine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Cocalodinae)
Author
Maddison, Wayne P.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2021
1
22
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.186069
99d44e7b-46c3-47a2-9695-3ea43c4186a0
1175-5326
186069
Genus
Allococalodes
Wanless
Wanless (1982)
described the genus
Allococalodes
for two species, each known from a single male. The body is more compact and the carapace higher than in
Cocalodes
. The palp lacks the expanded conductor of
Cocalodes
, and instead resembles the palpi of
Lapsias
Simon
or
Thrandina
Maddison
, having a relatively simple and short embolus, conductor and median apophysis. Here described is a new species, known from males and females. Because the known traits distinguishing
Allococalodes
from
Cocalodes
are probably ancestral, the monophyly of the genus is not assured, but the new species is placed there provisionally based on close similarity with the two described species.