New species of Helpis Simon, 1901 from Australia (Araneae: Salticidae), with a new definition of the genus
Author
Żabka, Marek
Author
Patoleta, Barbara M.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3873
5
571
589
journal article
42355
10.11646/zootaxa.3873.5.7
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1175-5326
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Helpis staregai
sp. nov.
Figs 75–83
,
88
Type
material
.
AUSTRALIA
, New South
Wales
: ♀
holotype
, Cremorne Park,
33°49' S
,
151°13' E
, [-33.8, 151.22],
4 Dec. 1982
, L. Hopwood, AMS KS10501.
Etymology
. In honour of Prof. Wojciech Staręga, distinguished Polish arachnologist, world authority in systematics of Opiliones.
Diagnosis
. Median guide missing; copulatory openings very wide, proximal part of the insemination ducts funnel-like, the latter widely V-shaped; accessory glands at the junction of insemination ducts and round spermathecae (
Figs 82–83
).
FIGURES 66–74
.
Helpis foelixi
sp. nov.
66 male holotype, dorsal view; 67 same, ventral view; 68, 70 same, palp, ventral view; 69 same, palp, dorsal view; 71 same, palp, retrolateral view; 72 same, thorax, dorso-lateral view; 73 same, frontal view; 74 same, cheliceral dentition, endites and labium, ventral view; (cf: cymbial flange, e: embolus, rta: retrolateral tibial apophysis, t: tegulum). Scale: 66–67, 72–74 = 1 mm, figs 70–71 = as in Fig.
FIGURES 75–83
.
Helpis staregai
sp. nov.
75 female holotype, dorsal view; 76 same, ventral view; 77 same, endites, labium and chelicerae; 78 same, thorax, dorso-lateral view; 79 same, frontal view; 80 same, cheliceral dentition; 81 same, leg first, 82–83 same, vulva; (ag: accessory gland, cd: copulatory duct, co: copulatory opening, p: pouch, s: spermatheca). Scale: 1 mm.
Description
. Female
holotype
. Cephalothorax with black eye surroundings, median part of cephalothorax dirty yellow/orange, sides with grey pattern, lower margin yellowish, setae very scanty (
Fig. 75
). Abdomen with grey pattern on light background, spinnerets pale. Clypeus very narrow, dirty orange, laterally darker, with single hairs and median bristles below AME (
Fig. 79
). Chelicerae brown with orange tips. Pedipalps pale, distally orange. Endites and labium basally orange brown, distal halves yellow (
Fig. 77
). Sternum yellowish. Venter pale (
Fig. 76
). Legs I rather massive, coxae-femora light. Tibiae and metatarsi orange with darker bands with 2-2-2-2, and 2-2 ventral spines, respectively, tarsi orange (
Fig. 81
). Legs II more delicate, with similar colouration and spination. Legs III–IV lighter, with darker bands, the latter more distinctive on metatarsi. Dimensions: CL 3.70, CW 2.80,
CH
1.71, AL 4.42, AW 2.86, EFL 1.61, AEW 2.70, PEW 2.18, leg I 10.28 (2.96+1.82+2.75+1.82+0.93), leg II 8.45 (2.34+1.45+2.34+1.16+0.72), leg III 9.81 (2.60+1.24+2.18+2.70+1.09), leg IV 10.17 (2.75+1.24+2.86+2.60+0.72).
Male. Unknwon.
Distribution
. Known only from the
type
locality (
Fig. 88
, triangle).