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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.5733/afin.051.0103" ID-GBIF-Dataset="1fda77d0-568d-4c11-b930-e1b190cef341" checkinTime="1448484831031" checkinUser="jeremy" docAuthor="Azarkina, Galina N. &amp; Logunov, Dmitri V." docDate="2010" docId="03923757F160FFEC2FE9FAB4FE49D23B" docLanguage="en" docName="AfrInvertebr.51.1.163-182.pdf" docOrigin="African Invertebrates 51 (1)" docTitle="Meleon russata Simon 1900" docType="treatment" docVersion="8" lastPageNumber="180" masterDocId="FFAB4F2FF16EFFFD2E2DFFCCFF9DD147" masterDocTitle="New data on the jumping spiders of the subfamily Spartaeinae (Araneae: Salticidae) from Africa" masterLastPageNumber="182" masterPageNumber="163" pageNumber="177" updateTime="1658155904825" updateUser="felipe">
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<mods:title>New data on the jumping spiders of the subfamily Spartaeinae (Araneae: Salticidae) from Africa</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Azarkina, Galina N.</mods:namePart>
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<treatment ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6201381" ID-GBIF-Taxon="114923611" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6201381" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:03923757F160FFEC2FE9FAB4FE49D23B" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03923757F160FFEC2FE9FAB4FE49D23B" lastPageId="17" lastPageNumber="180" pageId="14" pageNumber="177">
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<taxonomicName authority="Simon, 1900" authorityName="Simon" authorityYear="1900" box="[452,795,1400,1427]" class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Meleon" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="14" pageNumber="177" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="russata">
<emphasis box="[452,626,1400,1427]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="177">Meleon russata</emphasis>
(Simon,
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)
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<paragraph box="[518,729,1440,1467]" pageId="14" pageNumber="177">
<figureCitation box="[518,646,1440,1467]" captionStart="Figs 24 – 27" captionStartId="8.[144,183,1182,1204]" captionTargetBox="[179,1071,205,1158]" captionTargetId="figure@8.[170,1077,201,1162]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="Figs 24 – 27. Holcolaetis zuluensis Lawrence, 1937 (24, 25) from South Africa (Limpopo, Little Leigh) and Meleon russata (Simon, 1900) (26, 27) from Madagascar (Tamatave), general appearance: (24, 27) male, dorsal views; (25, 26) female, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 mm." pageId="14" pageNumber="177">Figs 26, 27</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[658,729,1441,1467]" captionStart-0="Figs 57 – 63" captionStart-1="Figs 64 – 69" captionStartId-0="15.[180,218,1580,1602]" captionStartId-1="16.[144,182,1582,1601]" captionTargetBox-0="[200,1125,653,1559]" captionTargetBox-1="[156,1089,956,1553]" captionTargetId-0="figure@15.[191,1132,652,1563]" captionTargetId-1="figure@16.[153,1094,950,1563]" captionTargetPageId-0="15" captionTargetPageId-1="16" captionText-0="Figs 57 – 63. Meleon russata (Simon, 1900) from Madagascar (Tamatave), male: (57) male palp, ventral view; (58) ditto, dorsal view; (59) tibial apophyses, dorsolateral view; (60) embolar divisio, lateral view; (61) chelicera, ventral view; (62) legs I and II, lateral view; (63) general appearance, dorsal view. Scale bars: 0.1 mm in Figs 57 – 62; 1 mm in Fig. 63." captionText-1="Figs 64 – 69. Meleon russata (Simon, 1900) from Madagascar (Tamatave), female: (64) epigyne, ventral view; (65) spermathecae, dorsal view; (66) diagrammatic course of the insemination ducts; (67) legs I and II, lateral view; (68) chelicera, ventral view; (69) female, dorsal view. Scale bars: 0.1 mm in Figs 64, 65, 67, 68; 1 mm in Fig. 69." pageId="14" pageNumber="177">
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<taxonomicName authority="Simon 1900: 381" authorityName="Simon" authorityPageNumber="381" authorityYear="1900" box="[144,445,1475,1497]" class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Portia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="14" pageNumber="177" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="russata">
<emphasis box="[144,274,1476,1497]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="177">Portia russata</emphasis>
: Simon
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:
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</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph box="[144,683,1499,1521]" pageId="14" pageNumber="177">
<taxonomicName authority="Simon" authorityName="Simon" box="[144,368,1499,1521]" class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Meleon" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="14" pageNumber="177" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="russata">
<emphasis box="[144,284,1499,1521]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="177">Meleon russata</emphasis>
(Simon)
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: Wanless
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:
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, figs
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A–D.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="179" pageId="14" pageNumber="177" type="description">
<paragraph box="[144,283,1536,1563]" pageId="14" pageNumber="177">Description:</paragraph>
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<emphasis box="[144,201,1576,1603]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="177">Male</emphasis>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="14" pageNumber="177">
<emphasis box="[144,306,1614,1640]" italics="true" pageId="14" pageNumber="177">Measurements</emphasis>
: Carapace: length
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, width
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, height at PLE
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. Ocular area: length
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, width anteriorly
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, width posteriorly
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. Diameter of
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:
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.
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Abdomen: length
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, width
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. Clypeal height:
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. Cheliceral length:
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. Length of leg segments: I
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+
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+
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+
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+
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; II 2.00+
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+
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+
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+
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; III
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+
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+
<number box="[346,395,270,296]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.2">1.20</number>
+
<number box="[411,461,270,296]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="2.55">2.55</number>
+
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; IV
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+
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+
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+
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+
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="16" lastPageNumber="179" pageId="15" pageNumber="178">
<emphasis box="[181,333,309,335]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="178">Leg spination</emphasis>
: I Fm d, pr and rt
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-
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-
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, Pt pr and rt
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, Tb d pr and rt
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-
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v
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-
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</date>
-0, Mt pr and rt
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-
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-
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,
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v
<number box="[345,359,341,367]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="2.0">2</number>
-
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</date>
ap; II Fm d pr and rt
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-
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-
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, Pt pr and rt
<number box="[834,848,341,367]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
, Tb d
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-
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-
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pr and rt
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-
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v
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-
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</date>
-0, Mt d
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-0 pr
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-
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rt
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-
<number box="[503,515,373,399]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
-
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,
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v
<number box="[573,588,373,399]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="2.0">2</number>
-
<number box="[596,610,373,399]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="2.0">2</number>
</date>
ap; III Fm d, pr and rt
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-
<number box="[908,919,373,399]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
-
<number box="[929,940,373,399]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
, Pt pr and rt
<number box="[1084,1097,373,399]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
, Tb d pr and rt
<number box="[303,316,405,431]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
-
<number box="[328,340,405,431]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
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v
<number box="[368,378,405,431]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
-
<number box="[387,423,405,431]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.5" valueMax="2.0" valueMin="1.0">1-2</number>
</date>
ap, Mt d
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-0 pr and rt
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-
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ap,
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v
<number box="[816,831,405,431]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="2.0">2</number>
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-
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ap; IV Fm d pr and rt
<number pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="0.5" valueMax="1.0" valueMin="0.0">0- 1</number>
-
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-
<number box="[229,241,437,463]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
, Pt pr and rt
<number box="[386,399,437,463]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
, Tb d pr and rt
<number box="[571,584,437,463]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
-
<number box="[596,608,437,463]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
<date box="[615,669,437,463]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178">
v
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-
<number box="[660,693,437,463]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.5" valueMax="2.0" valueMin="1.0">1-2</number>
</date>
ap, Mt pr and rt
<number box="[876,885,437,463]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
-
<number box="[894,929,437,463]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.5" valueMax="2.0" valueMin="1.0">1-2</number>
ap
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v
<number box="[989,999,437,463]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
-
<number box="[1008,1017,437,463]" pageId="15" pageNumber="178" value="1.0">1</number>
</date>
-0-
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ap.
<emphasis box="[181,318,474,501]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="178">Colouration</emphasis>
(
<figureCitation box="[331,415,474,501]" captionStart="Figs 24 – 27" captionStartId="8.[144,183,1182,1204]" captionTargetBox="[179,1071,205,1158]" captionTargetId="figure@8.[170,1077,201,1162]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="Figs 24 – 27. Holcolaetis zuluensis Lawrence, 1937 (24, 25) from South Africa (Limpopo, Little Leigh) and Meleon russata (Simon, 1900) (26, 27) from Madagascar (Tamatave), general appearance: (24, 27) male, dorsal views; (25, 26) female, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 mm." pageId="15" pageNumber="178">Figs 27</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[425,457,474,501]" captionStart="Figs 57 – 63" captionStartId="15.[180,218,1580,1602]" captionTargetBox="[200,1125,653,1559]" captionTargetId="figure@15.[191,1132,652,1563]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figs 57 – 63. Meleon russata (Simon, 1900) from Madagascar (Tamatave), male: (57) male palp, ventral view; (58) ditto, dorsal view; (59) tibial apophyses, dorsolateral view; (60) embolar divisio, lateral view; (61) chelicera, ventral view; (62) legs I and II, lateral view; (63) general appearance, dorsal view. Scale bars: 0.1 mm in Figs 57 – 62; 1 mm in Fig. 63." pageId="15" pageNumber="178">63</figureCitation>
): Carapace dark brown, with pale yellow ocular area and black around eyes. Sternum dark brown. Clypeus dark brown, but pale white in centre. Cheeks under ALEs yellow-white. Chelicerae dark brown. Abdomen: dorsum brownish grey, with medial grey-brown stripe; sides and venter grey-brown. All legs brown. Femora and tibiae I and II with fringes of dense and long black hairs ventrally (fringes much shorter on legs
<collectionCode box="[308,328,206,233]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179">II</collectionCode>
) (
<figureCitation box="[350,430,206,233]" captionStart="Figs 57 – 63" captionStartId="15.[180,218,1580,1602]" captionTargetBox="[200,1125,653,1559]" captionTargetId="figure@15.[191,1132,652,1563]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figs 57 – 63. Meleon russata (Simon, 1900) from Madagascar (Tamatave), male: (57) male palp, ventral view; (58) ditto, dorsal view; (59) tibial apophyses, dorsolateral view; (60) embolar divisio, lateral view; (61) chelicera, ventral view; (62) legs I and II, lateral view; (63) general appearance, dorsal view. Scale bars: 0.1 mm in Figs 57 – 62; 1 mm in Fig. 63." pageId="16" pageNumber="179">
Fig.
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). Spinnerets grey-brown. Book-lungs grey. Palps dark brown, covered with white hairs. Palpal structure as in
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Figs
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Figs 57–63.
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<emphasis box="[144,228,278,305]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="179">Female</emphasis>
.
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: I Fm d
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pr and rt
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, Pt pr and rt
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, Tb d, pr and rt
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-
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v
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, Mt pr and rt
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,
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v
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</date>
-
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ap; II Fm d
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pr and rt
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-
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, Pt pr and rt
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-
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v
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-
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, Mt pr and rt
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-
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ap,
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v
<number box="[516,530,548,574]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179" value="2.0">2</number>
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-
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ap; III Fm d
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-
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pr and rt
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-
<number box="[905,917,548,574]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179" value="1.0">1</number>
-
<number box="[929,941,548,574]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179" value="1.0">1</number>
, Pt pr and rt
<number box="[1083,1096,548,574]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179" value="1.0">1</number>
, Tb d pr and rt
<number box="[303,315,580,606]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179" value="1.0">1</number>
-
<number box="[328,340,580,606]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179" value="1.0">1</number>
<date box="[347,405,580,606]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179">
v
<number box="[368,382,580,606]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179" value="2.0">2</number>
-
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</date>
-
<number box="[413,428,580,606]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179" value="2.0">2</number>
ap, Mt d
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-0 pr and rt
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-
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ap,
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v
<number box="[818,833,580,606]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179" value="2.0">2</number>
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-
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ap; IV Fm d
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-
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pr
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<number box="[220,230,612,638]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179" value="1.0">1</number>
-0 rt 0-
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-0, Pt pr and rt
<number box="[513,526,612,638]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179" value="1.0">1</number>
, Tb d pr and rt
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-
<number box="[721,734,612,638]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179" value="1.0">1</number>
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v
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</date>
-
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ap, Mt d
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-0 pr
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-
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ap rt
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-
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ap
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v
<number box="[283,298,644,670]" pageId="16" pageNumber="179" value="2.0">2</number>
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<emphasis box="[144,277,682,709]" italics="true" pageId="16" pageNumber="179">Colouration</emphasis>
(
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,
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): Carapace brown, with pale yellow ocular area and black around eyes. Sternum brown. Clypeus and cheeks brown, with short white hairs. Cheeks under ALEs yellow-white. Chelicerae brown. Abdomen: dorsum grey-yellow, with median grey-brown stripe; sides and venter grey-brown. Book-lungs yellow-grey; spinnerets greyyellow.All legs yellow-brown, but Fm I and II brown, and Fm II pro- and retrolaterally with yellow patches. Fm I with white hairs. Tb I brown, with fringes of dense and long black hairs ventrally (fringes much shorter on legs
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Fig.
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Figs
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="179">
Figs 64–69.
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Material examined:
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♀
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xi.
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xi.
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,
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;
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♂
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(
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,
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<specimenCode box="[471,546,253,275]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">200.111</specimenCode>
</number>
), same locality,
<collectingMethod box="[692,800,253,275]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">sieved litter</collectingMethod>
,
<collectingDate box="[809,913,253,275]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" value="1993-12-11">
<date box="[809,913,253,275]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" value="1993-12-11">
<number box="[809,830,253,275]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" value="11.0">11</number>
.xii.
<number box="[864,913,253,275]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" value="1993.0">1993</number>
</date>
</collectingDate>
,
<collectorName box="[921,1002,253,275]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">A. Pauly</collectorName>
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="180" type="discussion">
<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="180">
Comments: The finding of the male of
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<emphasis box="[624,745,291,316]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">M. russata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation box="[761,849,289,316]" captionStart="Figs 24 – 27" captionStartId="8.[144,183,1182,1204]" captionTargetBox="[179,1071,205,1158]" captionTargetId="figure@8.[170,1077,201,1162]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="Figs 24 – 27. Holcolaetis zuluensis Lawrence, 1937 (24, 25) from South Africa (Limpopo, Little Leigh) and Meleon russata (Simon, 1900) (26, 27) from Madagascar (Tamatave), general appearance: (24, 27) male, dorsal views; (25, 26) female, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1 mm." pageId="17" pageNumber="180">Figs 27</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[862,936,289,316]" captionStart="Figs 57 – 63" captionStartId="15.[180,218,1580,1602]" captionTargetBox="[200,1125,653,1559]" captionTargetId="figure@15.[191,1132,652,1563]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figs 57 – 63. Meleon russata (Simon, 1900) from Madagascar (Tamatave), male: (57) male palp, ventral view; (58) ditto, dorsal view; (59) tibial apophyses, dorsolateral view; (60) embolar divisio, lateral view; (61) chelicera, ventral view; (62) legs I and II, lateral view; (63) general appearance, dorsal view. Scale bars: 0.1 mm in Figs 57 – 62; 1 mm in Fig. 63." pageId="17" pageNumber="180">
57–
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), so long after the ♀
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, allows us to comment on the species’ taxonomic assignment. The palp conformation of
<taxonomicName box="[375,497,355,380]" class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Meleon" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="russata">
<emphasis box="[375,497,355,380]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">M. russata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, particularly the shape and position of the embolus and the sclerotized lobe M
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(
<emphasis box="[457,520,387,412]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">sensu</emphasis>
Wanless
<number box="[627,683,386,412]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" value="1984.0">1984</number>
<emphasis box="[683,697,387,412]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">a</emphasis>
, fig.
<number box="[755,785,385,412]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" value="27.0">27</number>
<collectionCode box="[785,807,385,412]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">G</collectionCode>
), is almost identical to that of
<taxonomicName box="[181,361,417,444]" class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Veissella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="milloti">
<emphasis box="[181,361,417,444]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">Veissella milloti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Logunov &amp; Azarkina
<number box="[626,685,418,444]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" value="2008.0">2008</number>
, figs
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). Both species differ from each other in details of mutual arrangement and size of the embolus and the sclerite M
<number box="[206,215,500,514]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" value="2.0">2</number>
, as well as in the shape of tibial apophysis (cf.
<figureCitation box="[738,867,481,508]" captionStart="Figs 57 – 63" captionStartId="15.[180,218,1580,1602]" captionTargetBox="[200,1125,653,1559]" captionTargetId="figure@15.[191,1132,652,1563]" captionTargetPageId="15" captionText="Figs 57 – 63. Meleon russata (Simon, 1900) from Madagascar (Tamatave), male: (57) male palp, ventral view; (58) ditto, dorsal view; (59) tibial apophyses, dorsolateral view; (60) embolar divisio, lateral view; (61) chelicera, ventral view; (62) legs I and II, lateral view; (63) general appearance, dorsal view. Scale bars: 0.1 mm in Figs 57 – 62; 1 mm in Fig. 63." pageId="17" pageNumber="180">
Figs
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</figureCitation>
). Yet,
<taxonomicName box="[935,1035,481,508]" class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Veissella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="milloti">
<emphasis box="[935,1035,481,508]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">V. milloti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was only provisionally placed in the genus
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<emphasis box="[569,667,513,540]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">Veissella</emphasis>
(Logunov &amp; Azarkina
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:
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)
</taxonomicName>
, as the species has no process on the palpal femur and patella, the key diagnostic character of
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<emphasis box="[181,279,577,604]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">Veissella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see Wanless
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<emphasis box="[494,508,579,604]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">a</emphasis>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="180">
There is no doubt that both
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<emphasis box="[537,660,611,636]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">M. russata</emphasis>
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, known from Madagascar, and
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<emphasis box="[1031,1134,609,636]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">V. milloti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, known from the Comoros, belong to the same genus, but whether it should be
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<emphasis box="[1051,1134,641,668]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">Meleon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis box="[181,279,673,700]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">Veissella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
or a separate genus remains to be further studied. On the one hand, the female of
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<emphasis box="[214,336,707,732]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">M. russata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
does not possess the median epigynal guide, another key character of
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<emphasis box="[181,279,737,764]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">Veissella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see Wanless
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<emphasis box="[491,505,739,764]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">a</emphasis>
, fig.
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<collectionCode box="[591,609,737,764]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">E</collectionCode>
). Yet, as was stressed by Wijesinghe (
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:
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),
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<emphasis box="[181,303,771,796]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">M. russata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
differs from the true
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<emphasis box="[550,633,769,796]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">Meleon</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
species in the profile of its carapace and the very short copulatory ducts. Thus, it is very likely that
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<emphasis box="[788,907,803,828]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">M. russata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName box="[961,1060,801,828]" class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Veissella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="milloti">
<emphasis box="[961,1060,801,828]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">V. milloti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
should be placed in a genus of its own, separated both from true
<taxonomicName authority="Wijesinghe 1994" authorityName="Wijesinghe" authorityYear="1994" class="Arachnida" family="Salticidae" genus="Meleon" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Araneae" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis box="[842,926,833,860]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">Meleon</emphasis>
(
<emphasis box="[944,1006,835,860]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">sensu</emphasis>
Wijesinghe
<number box="[181,238,865,892]" pageId="17" pageNumber="180" value="1994.0">1994</number>
)
</taxonomicName>
and from
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<emphasis box="[363,461,865,892]" italics="true" pageId="17" pageNumber="180">Veissella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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