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
Parabathippus
gen. nov.
Type
species.
Bathippus shelfordi
Peckham & Peckham, 1907
.
Etymology.
The generic name is reminiscent of the name
Bathippus
; masculine in gender.
Diagnosis.
Medium sized spiders. Female chelicera with two promarginal teeth and one unident retromarginal tooth. Male chelicera usually elongate. Tegulum of male palp without proximal lobe; retrolateral sperm duct loop usually wide occupying more than half of bulb width; embolus slender and usually coiled for more than a circle; ventral tibial bump absent. Epigynal window large with a median septum. Spermatheca swollen and distinctive from copulatory duct.
Parabathippus
resembles
Bathippus
Thorell
in body form, color and elongate male chelicera, but differs in the long and coiled embolus with the plane of spiral parallel to the longitudinal axis of the palpal bulb (the plane of the embolic spiral is usually perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the palpal bulb in
Bathippus
), the oval embolic disc of the male palp; and the longer and usually less sclerotized copulatory duct.
Remarks.
The Southeast Asian
Bathippus
species have different genital structures from the species from
Papua New Guinea
, Pacific Islands and
Australia
including the
type
of
Bathippus
,
B. macrognathus
(Thorell)
. Unpublished molecular data also indicate that they fall into distinct clades. Thus the new genus
Parabathippus
is described here and the following species are transferred to
Parabathippus
from
Bathippus
:
Parabathippus birmanicus
(
Thorell, 1895
)
(New Combination)
Parabathippus digitalis
(
Zhang, Song & Li, 2003
)
(New Combination)
Parabathippus macilentus
(
Thorell, 1890
)
(New Combination)
Parabathippus petrae
(
Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012
)
(New Combination)
Parabathippus rectus
(
Zhang, Song & Li, 2003
)
(New Combination)
Parabathippus sedatus
(
Peckham & Peckham, 1907
)
(New Combination)
Parabathippus shelfordi
(
Peckham & Peckham, 1907
)
(New Combination)