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(
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,
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)
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Type material:
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:
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:
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,,
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, beating vegetation,
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, leg.
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<emphasis id="70F15A66FFCFFFE22666F9D2FBC0F9AF" box="[1031,1080,1547,1573]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="589">et al</emphasis>
. (IFS_Tho_581).
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Other material examined:
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:
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,,
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,
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23 20” N,
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, beating,
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,
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<emphasis id="70F15A66FFCFFFE2267EF98AFBA0F9E7" box="[1055,1112,1619,1645]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="589">et al.</emphasis>
(IFS_Tho_660).
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<emphasis id="70F15A66FFCFFFE222A6F9A9FEB6F91B" bold="true" box="[199,334,1655,1681]" pageId="2" pageNumber="589">Etymology.</emphasis>
The specific epithet refers to the
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locality, Jaffna. Adjective.
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Males of
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<emphasis id="70F15A66FFCFFFE2202CF945FD5EF93F" bold="true" box="[589,678,1691,1717]" pageId="2" pageNumber="589">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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can be unambiguously separated from
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by the shape of embolus (prominent constriction, prominent bulge right after the constriction, ending with a hook shaped, upwardly curved tip).
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Description. Male (
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):
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Total length 2.7; Prosoma length 1.3, width 1.2; Opisthosoma length 1.4, width 1.1. Prosoma dark brown with brownish yellow irregular markings with sparsely distributed setae. Opisthosoma tapered posteriorly with curved anterior margin, mottled with grey, pale yellow, dark brown and maroon markings, covered with setae. Lateral eye tubercles large, continuous, coloured whitish grey mottled with brown and dull red patches. Eye measurements: AME 0.11; ALE 0.19; PME 0.11; PLE 0.16; AME-AME 0.22; AME-ALE 0.19; PME- PME 0.29; PME-PLE 0.43. MOA length 0.46, with front width 0.38 and back width 0.49. Legs pale yellowish white with scattered light reddish-brown markings. Leg measurements: I: 4.2 (1.2, 0.6, 1.0, 0.9, 0.5); II: 4.4 (1.3, 0.6, 1.1, 0.9, 0.5); III 3.0 (0.9, 0.5, 0.7, 0.6, 0.3); IV: 3.1 (1.0, 0.5, 0.7, 0.6, 0.3). Palp as in Figs (8, 9, 12, 13), VTA long stemmed with a blunt hook-shaped apex, RTA broad based, bifid proximally. Tegulum round, dark and sclerotized. Embolus long, running almost a circle around the tegulum, tip with a prominent constriction, prominent bulge right after the constriction, ending with a hook shaped, upwardly curved tip.
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<emphasis id="70F15A66FFCEFFE322A6FEF7FED0FEC9" bold="true" box="[199,296,297,323]" pageId="3" pageNumber="590">Female:</emphasis>
Unknown.
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<emphasis id="70F15A66FFCEFFE322A6FE92FE22FEED" bold="true" box="[199,474,332,359]" pageId="3" pageNumber="590">Intraspecific variation.</emphasis>
The specimen collected from Kataragama is brownish green while the one collected from Jaffna peninsula is reddish brown.
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<emphasis id="70F15A66FFCEFFE322A6FE4AFE0FFE25" bold="true" box="[199,503,404,431]" pageId="3" pageNumber="590">Distribution and habitat.</emphasis>
Known only from
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. This species occurs in dry shrublands close to the beach in Mundaitivu and in a low land forest patch in Kataragama.
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