Further notes on the Afrotropical genus Festucula Simon, 1901 (Araneae, Salticidae) Author Azarkina, Galina N. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9328-3913 Laboratory of Systematics of Invertebrate Animals, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia & SARChI Chair on Biodiversity Value and Change in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, Centre for Invasion Biology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Agriculture, University of Venda, Private Bag X 5050, Thohoyandou, Limpopo 0950, South Africa urmakuz@gmail.com Author Foord, Stefan H. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9195-2562 SARChI Chair on Biodiversity Value and Change in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, Centre for Invasion Biology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Agriculture, University of Venda, Private Bag X 5050, Thohoyandou, Limpopo 0950, South Africa text ZooKeys 2023 2023-12-01 1185 285 308 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1185.110365 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1185.110365 1313-2970-1185-285 6F9ABC1DE39C499E9F86F9862076E226 70D396F5AA4D54B8958FE3914506D02C Festucula botswana sp. nov. Figs 1-3 , 4-7 , 29 , 30 Type material. Holotype : Botswana • ♀; Okavango swamps, c. -19.42, 22.97, on water surface, near plants, 28.VI.1979, A. Morley, B. Taylor leg.; NCA 83/496. Diagnosis. The epigyne of Festucula botswana sp. nov. is similar to that of F. festuculaeformis (Lessert, 1925) and F. haddadi Azarkina & Foord, 2014, but differs from them in having longer and thinner accessory glands' copulatory ducts (shorter in former species, cf. Fig. 2 and Azarkina and Foord 2014 : figs 52, 68). Etymology. This species is named after the country of the type locality. Description. Female. Total length 6.40. Carapace 2.05 long, 1.25 width. Abdomen 4.30 long, 1.10 width. Ocular area 0.85 long, 1.00 wide anteriorly, 1.10 wide posteriorly. Cheliceral length 0.65. Clypeal height 0.05. Hight at PLE 0.50. Diameter of AME 0.35. Length of leg segments: I 1.10 + 0.75 + 1.10 + 0.70 + 0.40 (4.05). II 0.85 + 0.50 + 0.55 + 0.50 + 0.35 (2.75). III. 0.75 + 0.30 + 0.50 + 0.55 + 0.40 (2.50). IV 1.25 + 0.50 + 1.00 + 0.80 + 0.50 (4.05). Leg setation: I: Tbpr 1-1-1, Mt v 2-2 ap. II: Mt v 2-2 ap. Colouration (in alcohol, Figs 4-7 ). Carapace brown, with a broad light brown longitudinal band medially and pair of broad light brown bands marginally. Ocular area brown, with two dark-brown patches in the middle, with black patches around eyes. Sternum yellow. Labium and endites yellow, pale apically. Chelicerae brown-yellow. Clypeus and cheeks brown-yellow, covered with white setae. Carapace stridulatory organs with 7 seta-bearing tubercles. Abdomen light brown, with one broad whitish-yellow longitudinal band medially and two whitish-yellow longitudinal bands laterally. Venter brownish-grey, covered with white short setae. Spinnerets brownish-yellow. Book-lung covers yellow. All legs yellow. Legs I long and robust, yellow-brown. Femora I dark-brown prolatero-apically; patellae I dark-brown prolaterally. Metatarsi and tarsi I brown. Palps yellow. Epigyne and vulva as in Figs 1-3 : wider than long in about 1.5 times. Copulatory openings located almost in a middle part, small and roundish. Fertilization ducts visible through integument. Copulatory ducts long, connected to long and club-shaped accessory glands pointed laterally. Spermathecae long and sub-vertical, with fertilization ducts located on apical part. Figures 1-3. Festucula botswana sp. nov., holotype 1 epigyne, ventral view 2 vulva, dorsal view 3 diagrammatic course of the insemination ducts. Scale bars: 0.1 mm. Figures 4-7. Festucula botswana sp. nov., holotype 4 habitus, dorsal view 5 same, ventral view 6 same, lateral view 7 same, latero-frontal view. Scale bars: 1 mm. Distribution. Known only from type locality in Botswana (Fig. 29 ).