Description of a new species of Cytaea Keyserling 1882 from Fiji (Araneae: Salticidae)
Author
Barbara Patoleta
Author
Joanna Gardzińska
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2010
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Genus
Cytaea
Keyserling, 1882
Cytaea
Keyserling 1882
, p. 1380; simon 1903, pp. 810-817; Żabka 1991, p. 24; Berry et al 1998, pp. 150- 151; murPHy & murPHy 2000, p. 349.
According to Berry et al. (1998) genus
Cytaea
is characterized by two-cusp tooth on retromargin of chelicerae and 3 to 6 teeth on promargin, lateral spines on all tibiae, patellae and metatarsi, and dorsal spine near base on tibiae.
Cytaea
can be distinguish from similar genera in the entire Pacific (like
Ascyltus
,
Euryattus
and
Servaea
), by very short tibia and patella of the males palp, as wide as long or wider (Berry et al. 1998).