Massagris schisma Maddison & Zhang

Maddison, Wayne P. & Zhang, J. X., 2006, New lyssomanine and hisponine jumping spiders from Africa (Araneae: Salticidae), Zootaxa 1255, pp. 29-35 : 32-34

Massagris schisma Maddison & Zhang , new species

Figs. 8–10

Type material. Holotype male in UBC­SEM from South Africa with label: SOUTH AFRICA: Northern Cape, Oorlogskloof Nature Reserve. 14 April 2001. G. Binford. Several legs of the holotype were used for molecular data by Maddison & Needham (2006; DNA voucher d081).

Etymology. The name refers to the deep cleft behind the PME.

Diagnosis. Distinguished from others of the genus by the long undivided embolus.

Description. Male. Holotype total length 4.0: carapace 2.2 long, 1.6 wide, 1.0 high; abdomen 1.8 long, 1.3 wide. Carapace ( Fig. 10 ) red brown with a yellow patch from PLEs to posterior thoracic margin, eyes with dark surrounds, clypeus and eye region with pale setae. Fovea relatively long. Eye sizes: AME 0.50, ALE 0.27, PME 0.08, PLE 0.30. First eye row 1.50 wide, second eye row 1.10 wide, third eye row 1.38 wide, eye area 1.33 long. Clypeus height 0.08. Chelicerae red brown, promargin with four teeth, retromargin with one tooth and three denticles. Endites and labium reddish brown. Sternum light amber. Legs pale yellow with grayish brown annulations. Spination of leg I: metatarsi v 2 ­0­0; tibiae v 2­2 ­2; femora d 0­2­3. Measurements of palp and legs: palp 2.0; leg I 5.3, II 4.3, III 4.2, IV 4.6. Leg formula: 1423. Abdomen oval and pale yellow, with black and white setae; dorsum with many irregular grey streaks laterally, two grey spots at anterior center, two arcs and some white speckles at posterior end; venter with a wide grey band in the middle. Spinnerets amber. Palp (Figs. 8,9): Embolus long and curved distally with a beaklike process at the angle; tegulum with median apophysis at retrolateral center; tibial apophysis long and finger­like.

Figures

FIGURES 8 – 13. Massagris schisma 8. Left palpus of male holotype, ventral; 9. Left palpus of male holotype, retrolateral; 10. carapace of male. Tomocyrba andasibe 11. Left palpus of male paratype (DNA voucher specimen d 127), ventral; 12. left palpus of male paratype (voucher d 127), retrolateral; 13. carapace of male holotype.