Eusparassus vestigator (Simon, 1897) Moradmand, 2013

Moradmand, Majid, 2013, The stone huntsman spider genus Eusparassus (Araneae: Sparassidae): systematics and zoogeography with revision of the African and Arabian species, Zootaxa 3675 (1), pp. 1-108 : 44

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3675.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6949810

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B787E9-8208-1378-25A5-8594FB61FE6E

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scientific name

Eusparassus vestigator
status

 

vestigator View in CoL species group

Diagnosis. Chelicerae without intermarginal denticles, one to four retromarginal bristles at distal end of cheliceral basal segment ( Figs 25e View FIGURE 25 , 28d View FIGURE 28 ); ventral opisthosoma with a distinct dark marking ( Figs 52b, f View FIGURE 52 , 53c View FIGURE 53 ); male with unique prominent and elongated vRTA (at least one third of dRTA length) ( Figs 25a View FIGURE 25 , 27a View FIGURE 27 ); epigyne with AMLL fused together and entirely encircling MS, epigyne with MS noticeably enlarged and fully sclerotized ( Figs 26a, d View FIGURE 26 ; 28a View FIGURE 28 ).

Species composition. Three species: E. vestigator (Simon, 1897) comb. nov.; E. reverentia spec. nov.; E. pearsoni ( Pocock, 1901) (for latter species description, see Moradmand & Jäger 2012a).

Distribution. Central to Eastern Africa and an isolated area in South Asia ( India) ( Fig. 71a View FIGURE 71 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Sparassidae

Genus

Eusparassus

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