Chapoda Peckham & Peckham, 1896

Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, Wayne P., 2012, New euophryine jumping spiders from Central and South America (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae), Zootaxa 3578, pp. 1-35 : 4

Genus Chapoda Peckham & Peckham, 1896

Diagnosis. Medium sized spiders living on tree trunks, on branches or on foliage. Carapace sometimes with guanine deposits within eye area. First tibia with three pairs of ventral macrosetae; first metatarsus with two pairs. Male palp sometimes with process on femur or/and patella; embolus slightly curved and coiled for less than one circle; proximal tegular lobe present or absent; ventral tibial bump usually present; retrolateral tibial apophysis finger-like. Epigynal window relatively small with a median septum. Beginning of copulatory duct swollen becoming secondary spermatheca. Chapoda can be distinguished from other euophryine genera in Central and South America by the combination of following genitalic features: small male palpal bulb with a short embolus and a small embolic spiral, relatively small epigynal window, and beginning of copulatory duct swollen forming secondary spermatheca.

Remarks. Chapoda is a poorly studied genus, with four species reported from Central and South America ( Platnick 2012). Three new species are described here. Unlike the known species, some of the new species have no guanine deposits in the eye area and the male palp lacks modification on the femur or patella. However, unpublished molecular data suggest that these new species fall into a clade with typical Chapoda species. Thus, here we expand the delimitation of Chapoda to enclose these species.