On linyphiid spiders (Araneae) from the Eastern and Central Mediterranean kept at the Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Geneva
Author
Tanasevitch, Andrei V.
text
Revue suisse de Zoologie
2011
2011-03-31
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journal article
10.5962/bhl.part.117799
0035-418X
6311696
Jacksonella bidens
sp. n.
Figs 70-76
HOLOTYPE
: Ƌ,
Cyprus
,
3 km
S of
Prodhromos
,
1500 m
a.s.l.
, sifting litter under
Platanus
,
10.IV.1981
, leg.
C. Besuchet
(11b).
PARATYPES
: 1 Ƌ,
1 ♀
,
Cyprus
, above
Ayia
,
950 m
a.s.l.
, sifting litter under
Pinus
,
12.VII.1977
, leg.
C. Besuchet
[11a]. –
1 ♀
,
Paphos District
,
Mamonia
, bank of
Dhiarisos
, sifting litter under
Tamarix
,
14.VII.1977
, leg.
S. Vit
[c/26]. –
1 ♀
(epigyne only),
Greece
,
Samos
, route
Kambos
(
E of Aghios Konstantinos
) -
Vourliotes
, above cloister “Moni Vronda”, in soil under
Pinus
sp.
,
520 m
a.s.l.
,
26.XI.1991
, leg.
B. Hauser
[ZS-91/63].
ETYMOLOGY: The specific name, a noun, refers to the armament of its chelicerae.
DIAGNOSIS: The species is characterised by the shape of the embolic division and by a very long median membrane.
DESCRIPTION: Male
paratype
. Total length 1.51 (
holotype
1.68). Carapace unmodified, 0.75 long, 0.58 wide, brownish yellow. Chelicerae 0.38 long, with a toothlike process as in Fig. 70. Maxillae each with a stout tooth anteriorly. Legs yellow. Leg I 2.19 long (0.63+0.18+0.55+0.48+0.35), IV 2.10 long (0.60+0.18+0.57+0.45+0.30). Chaetotaxy: 2.2.1.1, length of spines about one or two diameters of segment. TmI 0.35. Metatarsus IV without trichobothrium. Palp (Figs 71-74): Tibia unmodified. Protegulum membraneous, almost transparent. Distal suprategular apophysis sharpened distally. Median membrane like a long, narrow, almost transparent band, scarcely visible. Embolic division complex, with a large pointed anterior radical process and several small outgrowths. Embolus proper short and hook-shaped. Abdomen 0.75 long, 0.50 wide, pale grey.
Female. Total length 1.55. Carapace 0.75 long, 0.50 wide. Chelicerae 0.28 long, unmodified. Maxillae without a stout tooth. Leg I 1.99 long (0.60+0.20+0.53+0.43+ 0.23), IV 2.11 long (0.63+0.18+0.55+0.45+0.30). TmI 0.35. Abdomen 0.82 long, 0.50 wide. Epigyne and vulva as in Figs 75 & 76. Body and leg coloration, as well as chaetotaxy, as in male.
TAXONOMIC REMARKS: The new species differs clearly from the single known congener,
J. falconeri
(Jackson, 1908)
, by the presence of a stout tooth on the maxillae, by a well-developed distal suprategular apophysis, by a bigger and more complex embolic division, as well as by the shape of the epigyne.
DISTRIBUTION: Known from the islands of
Cyprus
and Samos only.