New lyssomanine and hisponine jumping spiders from Africa (Araneae: Salticidae)
Author
Maddison, Wayne P.
Author
Zhang, J. X.
text
Zootaxa
2006
1255
29
35
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.273478
9d7ea2de-f9db-4895-ad9f-84f75b08f1de
11755326
273478
Tomocyrba andasibe
Maddison & Zhang
,
new species
Figs. 11–13
Type
material.
Holotype
male in
CAS
from
Madagascar
with label:
MADAGASCAR
: Prov. Toamasina Res. Analamazaotra, Parc National
Andasibe
, 23 road km E Moramanga
18°56'38.2"S
,
048°25'03.2"E
, elev.
960m
rain forest
16–18.i.2003
C. Griswold, D. Silva, D. Andriamalala General collecting, night BLF7994 CASENT 9005649.
Paratype
:
1 male
, same data as
holotype
. Several legs of the
paratype
was used for molecular data by
Maddison & Needham (2006;
DNA
voucher d127)
.
Diagnosis.
Distingushed from the similar
T. kikuyu
Prószyński & Żabka (1983)
by the round tegulum and less coiled embolus.
Etymology.
Named for the
type
locality.
Description.
Male. Total length 2.7–2.8.
Holotype
total length 2.8: carapace 1.5 long, 1.1 wide, 0.9 high; abdomen 1.4 long, 1.2 wide. Carapace (
Fig. 13
) dark red brown with some dark brown irregular streaks and a yellow patch from AMEs to fovea; clypeus and eye region with black and white setae. Fovea short. Eye sizes: AME 0.35, ALE 0.20, PME 0.05, PLE 0.18. First eye row 0.95 wide, second eye row 0.63 wide, third eye row 0.85 wide, eye area 0.83 long. Clypeus height 0.07. Chelicerae red brown, central front slightly depressed, promargin with three small and one bicuspid teeth, retromargin with one bicuspid tooth. Endites and labium grayish brown. Sternum brownish. Coxa, trochanter and femur of leg I brownish; other segments and legs pale yellow. Spination of leg I: metatarsi
v 2
00; tibiae
v 2
02; femora d 001. Measurements of palp and legs: palp 1.5; leg I 2.9, II 2.3, III 2.5, IV 3.0. Leg formula: 4132. Abdomen oval, dorsum with one central and three pairs of lateral brown patches, as well as many white speckles, lateral and posterior abdomen dark, venter and spinnerets pale yellow. Palp (
Figs. 11, 12
): Embolus long and slightly coiled, tibial apophysis short.