A Review of the Jumping Spider Fauna (Araneae: Salticidae) of Chile
Author
Barry J. Richardson
text
Zootaxa
2010
2418
1
49
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.194411
07328530-1ef1-41d2-862d-9efa4f483ae7
1175-5326
194411
Dendryphantes niveornatus
Mello-Leitao, 1936
Dendryphantes niveornatus
Mello-Leitao, 1936
: 127
figs 9, 10;
Galiano, 1980
: 37
.
Material examined.
No material collected or examined.
Diagnosis:
This species is distinguishable from the other species of
Dendryphantes
in Chile as the cephalothorax is black with large white areas made of white pennate hairs below and behind PLE. The abdomen is black with two transversal fawn stripes and a border of white hairs around the edge of the anterior two thirds of the abdomen. Tibia 1 has a clear white ventral fringe.
Description: Male
(after
Mello-Leitao 1936
): Cephalothorax black with large white areas made of white pennate hairs below and behind PLE. Chelicerae, endites, labium and anterior-tapering sternum are black. Abdomen black with two transversal fawn stripes and a border of white hairs around the edge of the anterior two thirds of the abdomen (
Mello-Leitao 1936,
Fig. 9
). Reflective hairs are scattered across the anterior and centre parts of the abdomen. The spinnerets are black. LI fringed, longer and much more robust than the other legs. All femurs and patellas plus tibias I to III black. Metatarsus I black. Metatarsi II to IV and basal part of patella IV fawn. All tarsi yellow with black hairs. Tibia I with a clear white ventral fringe.
Palp:
tibia with single small apophysis curved inwards and directed forward, embolus long, straight and solidly built (Mello-
Leitao 1936
,
Fig. 10
). Tegulum rounded, without lobe and partly divided distally. Ventral spines: T1 1-1-1, T2 1-1-2, M1 & M2 2-2, T3 and T4 2-2, M3 and M4 with a distal circle of spines.
Female:
Unknown.
Distribution.
Known only from the
holotype
from Papudo, Chile.