New euophryine jumping spiders from Southeast Asia and Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae)
Author
Zhang, Jun-Xia
Author
Maddison, Wayne P.
text
Zootaxa
2012
3581
53
80
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.283062
cfe030a1-ca90-4fbb-aa43-778d1d22f3e1
1175-5326
283062
Genus
Laufeia
Simon, 1889
Description.
Small spiders. Body brown or dark brown, without distinctive large markings or stripes; carapace and abdomen covered with light colored scales. Male usually with a slightly sclerotized area on the dorsal abdomen. Chelicera usually with a bicuspid tooth on retromargin. Male palp with relatively wide retrolateral sperm duct loop; embolus long or short; embolic disc large or relatively small; proximal tegular lobe present. Epigynal window sometimes indistinct. Spermatheca of various shapes.
Remarks.
Laufeia
,
Orcevia
and
Junxattus
share similar somatic characters such as body form, color and cheliceral teeth pattern, but show considerate difference in genital structure (
Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold 2012
). Unpublished molecular data suggest they fall into one clade.
Two species previously described as
Laufeia
are transferred to other genera in this paper:
Laufeia liujiapingensis
Yang & Tang, 1997
to
Chinophrys
;
Laufeia scutigera
Żabka, 1985
to
Foliabitus
.
Two new species from
China
and
Malaysia
are described here.