New euophryine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae) 3491
Author
Zhang, Jun-Xia
Author
Maddison, Wayne P.
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-09-20
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74
journal article
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Genus
Thorelliola
Strand, 1942
Small to medium sized spiders. Carapace is usually high. Males of some species have setae enlarged into “horns” on the clypeus and some of them have a truncus for the “horns” on the clypeus (
Gardziṅska & Patoleta 1997
; Szű
ts & De
Bakker 2004). Chelicera has a fissident retromarginal tooth. Many species have a process distally on the front surface of the male chelicera. Epigynum has a big window without median septum. Some species have a pair of secondary spermathecae in addition to the primary spermathecae. Male palp of many species has prominent macrosetae on the tibia and also on the femur in some species; tegulum lacks proximal lobe; embolus is long or short.
FIGURES 196–204.
Sobasina wanlessi
sp. nov.
196 male; 197 female paratype; 198 male holotype, dorsal view; 199 female paratype, dorsal view; 200 male left chelicera, back view; 201 male right leg I, retrolateral view; 202 male left palp, ventral view; 203 epigynum, ventral view; 204 cleared epigynum, dorsal view. Scale bars: 198–199, 0.5 mm; 201, 0.2 mm; 200, 202–204, 0.1 mm. FIGURES 196–197 are copyright © 2012 W. P. Maddison, released under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC–BY) 3.0 license.
In total, 12 species have been reported from Southeast Asia,
Papua New Guinea
and the Pacific Islands (
Platnick 2012
). Some of the new species described here are not congruent with the described species in the appearance and in that males only have ordinary setae rather than robust “horns” on the clypeus. However, unpublished molecular data indicate that they fall into a clade with the typical
Thorelliola
species
including the
type
species
Thorelliola ensifera
(Thorell)
.
Thorelliola mahunkai
Szű
ts has “horns” not robust but more like ordinary setae (Szű
ts 2002
). Thus, using the “horns” on the male clypeus to define the genus
Thorelliola
may be too restricting. Here we expand the delimitation of the genus
Thorelliola
(see above) to comprise more species and to avoid erecting more new genera for jumping spiders.