A new lapsiine jumping spider from North America, with a review of Simon's Lapsias species (Araneae, Salticidae, Spartaeinae)
Author
Maddison, Wayne P.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.891.38563
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.891.38563
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Lapsias ciliatus Simon, 1900
Figs 19-29
Type material.
In MNHN Paris, 25 males from Colonia Tovar, Aragua State, Venezuela, most in a single vial with label "21083 Laps.
ciliatus
E.S., Tovar!" and more recent label "det
Szűts
0012". When I received the specimens from the MNHN, one male matching this species was in a separate vial without label except one in
Galiano's
handwriting reading "Typus? M.E. Galiano II 1959" and another "det
Szűts
0013". Insofar as
Galiano (1963)
indicated she designated a lectotype from the type vial, this specimen can be safely considered that specimen. I have therefore made a copy of the label "21083 Laps.
ciliatus
E.S., Tovar!" and placed it in that male
lectotype's
vial. The same applies to a female separated and with only
Galiano's
label "Allotypus ♀ det. M.E. Galiano II 1959". The vial with most specimens also includes 7 females, which cannot be considered type material because
Simon's
description makes no mention of females.
Notes.
The female is illustrated for the first time in
Figs 27-29
. The epigynal openings are beneath a common central hood. Although Galiano separated off a female and labelled it as allotype, neither she nor Simon gave any acknowledgement or description of a female of
L. ciliatus
. The matching of these females to males of
L. ciliatus
is reasonably secure, even though three species of
Lapsias
occur at Colonia Tovar. The females of form shown in
Figs 27-29
and the males matching the lectotype appear to have been abundant together, judging by the numbers of specimens. Both are larger and more robust, with wider carapaces, than the other two smaller, more delicate species from Colonia Tovar (
L. cyrboides
and
L. tovarensis
). Both male and female show a faint pale spot just posterior to the PLE.
Figures 19-29.
Lapsias ciliatus
, lectotype male (
19-25
) paralectotype (
26
), and associated female (
27-29
).
19-21
Male palp
19
ventral view
20
retrolateral view of tibia
21
ventral view
22
male body from above
23
body from below
24
chelicera from below
25
face
26
paralectotype male body from above
27
epigyne from below
28
vulva from above
29
body of same female as
27, 28
. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (
19, 27
); 1.0 mm (otherwise).