Redescription of the genus Opisthoncus L. Koch, 1880 (Araneae: Salticidae)
Author
Gardzińska, Joanna
Author
Żabka, Marek
text
Zootaxa
2013
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journal article
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Opisthoncus albiventris
L. Koch, 1881
(
Fig. 4
)
Opisthoncus albiventris
: Koch L. 1881: 1228
; Rainbow, 1911: 308; Żabka 1991: 44.
Type
material.
1F
Syntype
, ZMH, 7725, Mus. Godeffroy,
Australia
: Sydney [NSW].
Remarks.
Koch and Keyserling (1881) described both sexes from Sydney. The material labelled as “
type
” includes
2 females
, but only one of them corresponds with the original description. The second female belongs to
O
.
keyserlingi
(previously
Hasarius albiventris
).
Diagnosis.
Differs from close
O
.
parcedentatus
by the course of insemination ducts and orientation of spermathecae. Copulatory openings relatively small, oriented mid-anteriorly, posterior notch rounded, slightly concave. Membranous parts of insemination ducts coiled in one circle, intermediate ducts relatively short, curved and looped as in
Fig. 4
H.
Description.
Female
(
Fig. 4
) about
5 mm
long. Cephalothorax moderately narrow and high (CW = 75% of CL,
CH
= 46% of CL), pale brown, sparsely covered with short, pallid scales (
Figs 4
B,C). Surrounding of eyes black. Clypeus moderately wide, pale brown, covered with numerous pallid scales and setae, longer and denser in the centre (
Fig. 4
E). Cheliceral retromargin with 2-cuspidate fissident tooth (
Fig. 4
F). Chelicerae, endites and labium pale brown, the latter with yellow anterior margins. Sternum moderately round, orange, clothed in scattered fine, pallid hairs (
Fig. 4
D). Abdomen yellowish-orange, with medial longitudinal whitish area and pattern of transverse whitish stripes and brown spots as in
Fig. 4
C. Venter whitish, with visible guanine deposits and brown stripes along the sides (
Fig. 4
D). Spinnerets yellow. Legs I, II with coxae and femora yellow and other podomeres orange. Other legs yellow. Pedipalps yellow with orange tarsi. Epigyne as illustrated in
Figs 4
G–H.
Dimensions. CL 2.24, CW 1.68,
CH
1.04, AEW 1.56, PEW 1.60, EFL 0.80, AL 2.80, AW 1.44.
Male
unknown (
type
specimen lacking).