Harmochirina (Pellenattus), Maddison, Wayne P., 2017

Maddison, Wayne P., 2017, New species of Habronattus and Pellenes jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Harmochirina), ZooKeys 646, pp. 45-72 : 58-59

Pellenattus subgen. n. Figs 72-81, 82-85, 86-94

Type species.

Pellenes peninsularis Emerton, 1925

Diagnosis.

Differs from the other described subgenera of Pellenes in having the TmA smaller than the embolus. The TmA of Pellenattus is often reduced to a small protuberance (Figs 72, 73, 75, 77, Pellenes peninsularis ), or if as long as the embolus, then it is narrower than it (Fig. 86, Pellenes canadensis ). In Old World species placed in described subgenera, the TmA is distinctly broader and larger than the embolus proper. The breadth of their TmA could be considered a synapomorphy of the four described subgenera, thereby excluding Pellenattus . Alternatively, the narrowness of the TmA in Pellenattus could be considered a synapomorphy with Habronattus . Those Old World species with a small TmA are primarily African (e.g., Pellenes bulawayoensis Wesołowska, 1999) and as yet unplaced to subgenus. Pellenattus species have a relatively narrow body and a simple medial longitudinal band, often divided into chevrons, on the abdomen (Figs 82-85), in contrast to Pelmultus and the African Pellenes which are more compact-bodied and have more contrasting markings. Strong transverse or oblique pale abdominal bands as seen in many Old World species (e.g., Pellenes tripunctatus , Pellenes bulawayoensis , Pellenes nigociliatus (Simon, 1875)) are absent from the American species. Molecular data currently being prepared for publication also support the distinctiveness of the American Pellenes .

The species here placed in Pellenattus are:

Pellenes (Pellenattus) apacheus Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955!, comb. n.

Pellenes (Pellenattus) canadensis sp. n.!

Pellenes (Pellenattus) crandalli Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955!, comb. n.

Pellenes (Pellenattus) dorsalis (Banks, 1898), comb. n.

Pellenes (Pellenattus) grammaticus Chamberlin 1925!, comb. n.

Pellenes (Pellenattus) levii Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955!, comb. n.

Pellenes (Pellenattus) limatus Peckham & Peckham, 1901!, comb. n.

Pellenes (Pellenattus) longimanus Emerton, 1913!, comb. n.

Pellenes (Pellenattus) peninsularis Emerton, 1925!, comb. n.

Pellenes (Pellenattus) shoshonensis Gertsch, 1934!, comb. n.

Pellenes (Pellenattus) washonus Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955!, comb. n.

Most of the described species of Pellenes (Pellenattus) were figured by Lowrie and Gertsch (1955). I have examined the holotypes of those species marked with! in the list above. Although Griswold (1987) considered Pellenes dorsalis to be a nomen dubium, Banks’s figure of the palp almost certainly shows a Pellenes near Pellenes washonus , given the context of the Sonoran fauna. The figure of Pellenes cinctipes Banks, 1898 suggests it belongs here as well.

Logunov et al. (1999) placed one of these species within one of the Old World subgenera, Pellenes limatus into Pelmultus , but Pellenes limatus is a typical American species, differing from Pelmultus by the characters mentioned above.