Goleba puella (Simon, 1885)

Wesolowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2009, Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa, African Invertebrates 50 (1), pp. 13-103 : 38

Goleba puella (Simon, 1885)

Figs 53–61

Asamonea puella: Simon 1885: 27 ; Roewer 1965: 4, figs 5a–c.

Asemonea puella: Clark 1974: 12 , figs 2, 3.

Goleba puella: Wanless 1980: 246 , figs 22a–e, 23a–c, 29.

Redescription:

Measurements (male/female): Carapace length 2.5/2.5, width 1.9/1.9, height 0.8/0.7. Abdomen length 3.2/4.5, width 1.3/2.2. Eye field length 0.8/0.8, anterior width 1.3/1.2, posterior width 0.9/1.0.

Male.

General appearance as in Fig. 53. Carapace pear-shaped, yellowish (probably green in live specimens), with black rings surrounding eyes (except anterior medians), and traces of parallel brownish stripes on the thoracic part; eyes placed in four rows, posterior median eyes relatively large (as in other Lyssomaninae spiders), all eyes on high tubercles; fovea sulciform; clypeus medium high, with band composed of reddish hairs ( Fig. 54), band extending to lateral margins of carapace. Mouthparts and sternum yellow. Chelicerae pluridentate, four teeth on promargin and five on retromargin, dorsal surface of chelicerae with transverse brown band ( Fig. 54). Abdomen narrower than carapace, elongate, yellow, with poorly defined pattern formed by reddish hairs; venter pale; spinnerets yellow. Legs slender, long, especially long metatarsi; legs yellowish, only femora with brown stripes on prolateral surfaces; spines numerous, robust, long. Pedipalps pale; palpal femur with big ventral tubercle ( Fig. 59); cymbium narrow terminally ( Fig. 58); tibia with ventral and retrolateral apophyses, the latter one hooked ( Figs 57, 58); tegulum irregular, with median tegular apophysis and two small lobes ( Fig. 56); spermophore meandering, embolus stout ( Figs 55, 56).

Female.

Slightly larger than male, abdomen not as slender; whole body yellowish white, only eye rings blackish. Epigyne rounded, shown in Fig. 60; internal structure as in Fig. 61; accessory glands very long, tubule-like.

Material examined: 1ơ 1^Main Camp, 26 ° 54.581'S: 32 ° 18.798'E, broadleaf woodland, beats, short bushes, 6.vii.2000 ( NMBA 11597 ); 1^Near pump, Pongola R . floodplain, 26 ° 54.323'S: 32 ° 19.435'E, riverine forest, beating foliage, 27.vi.2006 ( NCA 2006 /1214); 1ơ 1^26 ° 51.908'S: 32 ° 14.458'E, subtropical bush, Mahemane thicket, beats, foliage, 2.xii.2000 ( NCA 2008 /2038) .

Distribution: Species hitherto known from Angola, Congo, Ghana and Kenya; recorded for the first time from South Africa.

Habitat and biology: This pale green species was occasionally collected from foliage of woody plants in BW, RF and ST.