Chrysilla volupe (Karsch, 1879)

Magar, Kiran Thapa, Shrestha, Bimal Raj, Gurung, Tek Bahadur, K. C., Rabin Bahadur, Babu, Lamichhane, Ram, Hill, David E. & Thapa, Arjun, 2020, New records of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Nepal, Peckhamia 220 (1), pp. 1-11 : 4-5

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7171256

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BD03CE80-90FB-46C8-B322-953241231171

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7169781

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scientific name

Chrysilla volupe (Karsch, 1879)
status

 

2. Chrysilla volupe (Karsch, 1879) View in CoL (Figures 4-6)

Material examined. Continent: Asia; country: Nepal; province: Bagmati; district: Chitwan ; locality: Eastern sector, Chitwan National Park ; habitat: grassland (near water bodies); elevation: 169 m asl; latitude: 27.5633N; longitude: 84.4929E; sampling protocol: aerial hand collection; sex: 1 female and 1 male GoogleMaps .

Global distribution. Bhutan, India, Nepal (new record) and Sri Lanka.

Identification. Identification was based on the description of the male and female C. volupe by Caleb et al. (2018). Male: reddish orange carapace with pair of broad bluish iridescent transverse stripes, anterior eyes surrounded with reddish-orange orbital setae in the upper half and white orbital setae in the lower half; clypeus covered by bluish iridescent scales which diverge laterally, one branching below the lateral eyes almost reaching the posterior patch, the other runs along outer edge of the carapace. Female: greyish carapace with white rim; clypeus covered with reddish orange; anterior eyes with grey eyebrows.

Habitat notes. The male and female C. volupe were collected from grassland of Imperata cylindrica near the bank of Rapti River.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Chrysilla

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