The jumping spiders of Mozambique (Araneae: Salticidae)
Author
Haddad, Charles Richard
0000-0002-2317-7760
haddadcr @ ufs. ac. za; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2317 - 7760
haddadcr@ufs.ac.za
Author
Wiśniewski, Konrad
0000-0002-6780-3292
Institute of Biology, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Arciszewskiego 22 a, 76 - 200 Słupsk, Poland & konrad. wisniewski. araneae @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6780 - 3292
konrad.wisniewski.araneae@gmail.com
Author
Wesołowska, Wanda
0000-0002-4411-1058
Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, P. O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa & Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51 - 148 Wrocław, Poland & Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, P. O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa & wanda. h. wesolowska @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4411 - 1058 * Corresponding author
wanda.h.wesolowska@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-12-27
5560
1
1
92
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1
1175-5334
0F942970-010E-4775-856E-31CA016DAD50
Pachyballus
cf.
castaneus
Simon, 1900
Pachyballus castaneus
Simon, 1900: 400
(
♀
);
Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski 2020: 55
, figs 6, 18–28, 129 (
♂
♀
).
Material examined.
MOZAMBIQUE
:
Inhambane
:
Morrungulo
,
Morrungulo Resort
,
23°13.983’S
,
35°29.587’E
, beating shrubs, dune forest,
6.XII.2007
, leg.
R. Lyle
&
R. Fourie
,
1 subad. ♀
(
NCA 2020
/166)
.
Remarks.
We have only examined a subadult female, but its size, shape of the abdomen and cheliceral dentition suggest that it is
P. castaneus
.
Distribution.
Known from
South Africa
and
Zimbabwe
. This is the first record from
Mozambique
.