Maeota simoni, Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, Wayne P., 2012

Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, Wayne P., 2012, New euophryine jumping spiders from Central and South America (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae), Zootaxa 3578, pp. 1-35 : 25-26

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.209883

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6165770

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C7330F76-A30F-FFEB-FF7E-F8B12396FD7D

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Plazi

scientific name

Maeota simoni
status

sp. nov.

Maeota simoni View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 99–101 View FIGURES 99 – 101 , 145 View FIGURES 142 – 145

Type material. Holotype: male, PANAMA: Panamá: Panama City, Parque Metropolitano, 8.99442° N, 79.54301° W, elev. 96 m, 29 September 2008, beating at ground level, coll. J. Zhang & G. B. Edwards, JXZ08#013 (UBC- SEM AR00160). Paratype: 1 male, same data as holotype.

Etymology. The specific epithet is a patronym in honor of Eugène Simon, who made great contributions to the systematics of jumping spiders.

Diagnosis. Similar to Maeota flava in color pattern ( Fig. 99 View FIGURES 99 – 101 ), but differs in the narrower embolic spiral, the smaller embolic disc, the narrower palpal bulb, the shape of the retrolateral tibial apophysis and the absence of the ventral tibial bump of the male palp ( Figs 100–101 View FIGURES 99 – 101 ).

Description. Male (holotype, UBC-SEM AR00160). Carapace length 1.2 (variation 1.2–1.3, n=2); abdomen length 1.2. Palp ( Figs 100–101 View FIGURES 99 – 101 ): dark yellow brown. Spiral of embolus relatively narrow; proximal tegular lobe present; retrolateral tibial apophysis finger-like, abruptly narrowed at the tip; ventral tibial bump absent. Measurements of legs: I 2.5, II 2.2, III 2.7, IV 3.0. Color in alcohol ( Fig. 99 View FIGURES 99 – 101 ): carapace dark brown, covered with white scales, eye area also with orange scales, with a narrow and short brownish stripe behind fovea; abdomen yellow brown to gray brown, with a wide medial sandy yellow stripe and many small brownish speckles; first pair of legs yellow brown, with dark markings, other legs pale yellow.

Female. Unknown.

Natural history. Specimens were found beating foliage in wet forest.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Maeota

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