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
Corythalia
C. L. Koch, 1850
Small to large sized spiders.
Corythalia
can usually be distinguished from the closely related genus
Anasaitis
by the long and coiled embolus, the presence of a distinct epigynal window with median septum, and the longer copulatory duct.
Corythalia
is one of the most diverse although poorly studied euophryine genera in the New World, with 73 species described (
Platnick 2011
). The monophyly of this genus has never been tested and some species reported from the Caribbean Islands may be misplaced. The new species described here are placed in
Corythalia
because unpublished molecular data indicate that they fall into a clade with the other
Corythalia
species from the South and Central
America
.