On the jumping spider Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham 1892 (Araneae: Salticidae: Simonellini) from Brazil
Author
Bedoya-Roqueme, Edwin
text
Peckhamia
2022
2022-06-15
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.7169200
1944-8120
7169200
8827C1C8-F3A8-486F-9A41-7436AFC72A35
Erica
Peckham & Peckham 1892
, monotypic genus
Type
species:
Erica eugenia
Peckham & Peckham 1892
Differential diagnosis
. The genus
Erica
shares several characters with the genus
Fluda
Peckham & Peckham, 1892
, but can be distinguished from the latter by the relatively high cephalothorax, with the cephalic region slightly inclined forward and a slight constriction separating it from the thoracic region, which is convex (
Figures 1–4
). The male is easily distinguished from the other members of the
Simonellini
by the pedipalp (
Figures 17–18
), with a simple bulb and the embolus short and thin, occupying a fossa on the prolateral side of the bulb (
Figures 21–22
). The copulatory ducts of the female
Erica
are somewhat similar to
Synemosyna
Hentz 1846
, but the female
Erica
is easily distinguished by the circular epigynum, and the clear gonopore, connected directly by the insemination ducts (
Figures 13
,
15
), which immediately curve, and then continue straight until they fold back on themselves, forming the spermatheca and then culminating in the fertilization ducts (
Figures 14
,
16
).