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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journal article
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Genus
Bathippus
Thorell, 1892
Medium to large sized spiders. Males usually have elongate chelicerae. Female chelicera usually has a unident retromarginal tooth. First leg usually has three pairs of ventral macrosetae on tibia and four pairs on metatarsus.
Male palpal bulb is oval, without proximal tegular lobe. Retrolateral tibial apophysis is long or short, and usually finger-like. Femur of male palp is more or less long and curved. Epigynum has a window, with the opening to the copulatory duct at the anterior or median of the vulva.
Thirty-two species have been described from Southeast Asia,
Papua New Guinea
, Pacific islands and
Australia
(
Platnick 2012
). The four new species are placed within this genus because of their similar morphology to the
type
species
Bathippus macrognathus
(Thorell)
(see Prószyṅski 1976), such as the elongate male chelicerae and the less coiled embolus of the male palp. Their close relationship with
B. macrognathus
is indicated by unpublished molecular data.