New euophryine jumping spiders from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae)
Author
Zhang, Jun-Xia
Author
Maddison, Wayne P.
text
Zootaxa
2012
3476
1
54
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.282237
6f8bca96-6ca2-4bff-88b3-3b995e4a2529
1175-5326
282237
Genus
Antillattus
Bryant, 1943
Medium sized spiders. Male chelicerae are usually elongate or enlarged with modifications such as projections on the front and/or ectal surface. Endites are usually enlarged distally. Chelicera usually has a fissident retromarginal tooth with more than two cusps or a unident retromarginal tooth (e.g.
Antillattus applanatus
). Embolus of the male palp is usually short with a simple curve. Epigynum has an obvious window with a median septum. Vulva usually has a pair of secondary spermathecae in addition to the primary spermathecae.
Antillattus
differs from
Agobardus
in the dentition of the female chelicera (
Agobardus
has one bicuspid retromarginal tooth in female) and the presence of the secondary spermatheca in vulva (
Agobardus
lacks secondary spermatheca). Although some species of
Agobardus
also have enlarged chelicerae in male, they usually lack a projection on the front or ectal surface of the chelicera as seen in
Antillattus
.
Only two species have been reported from Hispaniola (
Bryant 1943
;
Platnick 2011
). However, some species placed in
Agobardus
,
Pensacola
and
Siloca
may actually belong to
Antillattus
. The new species is placed in
Antillattus
mainly because unpublished molecular data indicates that it is closely related to the
type
species of
Antillattus
,
A. gracilis
Bryant, 1943
.
Figures 90–93.
Antillatus applanatus
sp.
nov.
90
–
92
male
holotype
;
93 female
paratype
. Figures 90
–
93 are copyright © 2012 W. P. Maddison, released under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 3.0 license.