New species of Habronattus and Pellenes jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Harmochirina)
Author
Maddison, Wayne P.
text
ZooKeys
2017
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.646.10787
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.646.10787
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Genus
Pellenes Simon, 1876
Type species.
Aranea tripunctata
Walckenaer, 1802
Notes.
Currently 84 species are assigned to
Pellenes
(World Spider Catalog, 2016). There are five subgenera: the nominate, three described by described by
Logunov et al. (1999)
and one by
Proszynski
(2016)
. These are:
Pellenes
Simon 1876.
Logunov et al. (1999)
included three species in the nominate subgenus. The TmA is massive, much larger than the embolus.
Logunov et al (1999)
diagnosed
Pellenes
s. str. by "a raised epigynal median septum in females ... and the tibial apophysis appressed in the cymbial groove in males".
Pelpaucus
Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 (type species
Pellenes limbatus
Kulczynski
, 1895). Six species are assigned to
Pelpaucus
. Their TmA is a more or less straight flat blade, wide especially at the tip, parallel to the embolus and as long as it.
Logunov et al (1999)
diagnosed
Pelpaucus
by the RTA very short or absent, an apical spine on the TmA, a recessed epigynal atrium, and a one-chambered spermatheca.
Pelmultus
Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 (type species
Attus geniculatus
Simon, 1868). Twenty-three species are assigned to
Pelmultus
. They are compact-bodied (not elongate), with contrasting markings and a somewhat-ornamented male first leg, resembling in habitus to some extent the
Habronattus dorotheae
species group. The TmA is as long as the embolus but wider, with a complex pointed tip.
Logunov et al (1999)
diagnosed
Pelmultus
by the heavily sclerotized epigynal flaps and the subparallel tips of the embolus and the TmA.
Pelmirus
Logunov, Marusik & Rakov, 1999 (type species
Pellenes dilutus
Logunov, 1995). Four species are assigned to
Pelmirus
, having a large complex TmA that
curls
distally at the tip, like a tongue.
Logunov et al. (1999)
diagnosed
Pelmirus
by the embolus and TmA perpendicularly orientated to each other and the peculiar elevated central pocket of the epigynum.
Pellap
Proszynski
, 2016 (type species implied to be
Pellenes lapponicus
Sundevall 1833).
Pellenes lapponicus
has a long embolus and TmA, the latter much wider.
Proszynski
(2016)
characterizes
Pellap
by the long needle-like embolus sheathed in the thick TmA, trapezoidal RTA, medial groove behind the central pocket of the epigynum, and spiral spermathecae.
In all of these subgenera, the TmA is distinctly larger than the embolus. Many other species of
Pellenes
are not yet assigned to a subgenus, including many African species whose TmAs are small or (apparently) absent.
Although two Holarctic species are known from the Americas,
Pellenes (Pellap) lapponicus
and
Pellenes (Pelpaucus) ignifrons
(Grube, 1861), the remaining species of New World
Pellenes
form a distinctive group not known to occur in the Old World. The subgenus
Pellenattus
is here described to contain them.