Tomocyrba andasibe Maddison & Zhang

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

Tomocyrba andasibe Maddison & Zhang , new species

Figs. 11–13

Type material. Holotype male in CAS from Madagascar with label:

MADAGASCAR: Prov. Toamasina Res. Analamazaotra, Parc National Andasibe , 23 road km E Moramanga 18°56'38.2"S, 048°25'03.2"E, elev. 960m rain forest 16–18.i.2003 C. Griswold, D. Silva, D. Andriamalala General collecting, night BLF7994 CASENT 9005649. Paratype: 1 male, same data as holotype. Several legs of the paratype was used for molecular data by Maddison & Needham (2006; DNA voucher d127).

Diagnosis. Distingushed from the similar T. kikuyu Prószyński & Żabka (1983) by the round tegulum and less coiled embolus.

Etymology. Named for the type locality.

Description. Male. Total length 2.7–2.8. Holotype total length 2.8: carapace 1.5 long, 1.1 wide, 0.9 high; abdomen 1.4 long, 1.2 wide. Carapace ( Fig. 13 ) dark red brown with some dark brown irregular streaks and a yellow patch from AMEs to fovea; clypeus and eye region with black and white setae. Fovea short. Eye sizes: AME 0.35, ALE 0.20, PME 0.05, PLE 0.18. First eye row 0.95 wide, second eye row 0.63 wide, third eye row 0.85 wide, eye area 0.83 long. Clypeus height 0.07. Chelicerae red brown, central front slightly depressed, promargin with three small and one bicuspid teeth, retromargin with one bicuspid tooth. Endites and labium grayish brown. Sternum brownish. Coxa, trochanter and femur of leg I brownish; other segments and legs pale yellow. Spination of leg I: metatarsi v 2 ­0­0; tibiae v 2 ­0­2; femora d 0­0­1. Measurements of palp and legs: palp 1.5; leg I 2.9, II 2.3, III 2.5, IV 3.0. Leg formula: 4132. Abdomen oval, dorsum with one central and three pairs of lateral brown patches, as well as many white speckles, lateral and posterior abdomen dark, venter and spinnerets pale yellow. Palp ( Figs. 11, 12 ): Embolus long and slightly coiled, tibial apophysis short.

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.