Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa
Author
Wesolowska, Wanda
Author
Haddad, Charles R.
text
African Invertebrates
2009
2009-06-30
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journal article
2305-2562
Cyrba nigrimana
Simon, 1900
Figs 26–28
Cyrba nigrimanus
: Simon 1900
a
: 389
; Caporiacco 1947: 230.
Cyrba nigrimana
: Wanless 1984
a
: 465
, figs 12a–g.
See Caporiacco (1947) for description of male.
Figs 26–28.
Cyrba nigrimana
: (26) cheliceral dentition; (27) epigyne; (28) internal structure of epigyne.
Redescription:
Female.
Measurements: Carapace length 2.6, width 1.7, height 0.8. Abdomen length 2.7, width 1.8. Eye field length 1.1, anterior width 1.6, posterior width 1.5.
Medium-sized spider. Carapace elongate, sloping gently posteriorly; eye field short, slightly wider anteriorly; carapace orange-brown, eyes surrounded by black rings; fovea elongate, sulciform, clearly visible; clypeus low, clothed in long white hairs. Chelicerae brown, three teeth on promargin and four small teeth on retromargin (
Fig. 26
). Abdomen elongate oval, narrower than carapace, dark grey, covered with dense, short, greyish hairs; venter grey; spinnerets grey. Legs moderately long and slender, last pair longest; legs light brown, only tibiae and metatarsi of first pair black; hairs covering legs long, brown; one pair of ventral spines on metatarsus I, three pairs on tibia. Pedipalps blackish. Epigyne with notch in posterior edge and posterior depression in shape of inverted heart (
Fig. 27
); receptacles elongated (
Fig. 28
).
Material examined: 1^Airfield,
26
°
54.865'S
:
32
°
17.896'E
, broadleaf woodland, leaf litter,
22.i.2006
(
NCA 2008
/2027); 1^Dipini Hide,
26
°
51.678'S
:
32
°
15.514'E
, under logs,
7.vii.2002
(
NCA 2009
/676)
.
Distribution: Species described from
South Africa
(Pretoria,
Gauteng Province
and Makapan,
Limpopo Province
).Also reported by Caporiacco (1947) from Eastern Africa, but this record is doubtful.
Habitat and biology: Collected from leaf litter in BW and under logs in ST.
Remark: This species has elongate receptacles, whereas those of the other members of the genus are spherical.