Trite guilberti, Patoleta, Barbara M., 2014

Patoleta, Barbara M., 2014, The species of Trite Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Caledonia, Zootaxa 3827 (3), pp. 355-365 : 363

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3827.3.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:346291DA-873F-4D5B-8582-A5E1F48EB529

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6139345

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C487C6-FFA7-FFE4-FF60-AEF9FE458286

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Plazi

scientific name

Trite guilberti
status

sp. nov.

Trite guilberti View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 14–18 View FIGURES 12 – 20 , 24 View FIGURE 24

Type material. Male holotype from Rivière Bleue, New Caledonia (166°39′55″E, 22°6′ S), 18 October 1986, R.L. Brown, sweeping, deposited in AMNH.

Additional material examined. NEW CALEDONIA: 2M, Rivière Bleue, night collection, 7 November 1988, R. Raven (QM S13637 View Materials ).

Etymology. After entomologist Éric Guilbert (Muséum National d ′Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France)—one of the collectors of the material studied.

Diagnosis. Differs from other representatives of Trite by having a long embolus rising prolaterally at the proximal part of the bulb ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 12 – 20 ). Tegulum elongate, irregular in shape, with proximal retrolateral lobe.

Description. Male holotype. Cephalothorax brown with white hairs on the sides and the middle of the carapace ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 12 – 20 ). Eyes surrounded in dark brown. Anterior fringe of orange and white hairs present ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 12 – 20 ). Thorax with indistinct light brown lines radiating from fovea. Clypeus brown, much narrower (17%) than AME diameter, covered with long, white hairs. Chelicerae brown, slender with papillate anterior surface and frontal spur; fangs with distinctive protrusion ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 12 – 20 ). Promargin with single tooth, retromarginal tooth with 4–5 cusps. Endites brown, with lateral outgrowth ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 12 – 20 ). Labium brown. Sternum light brown. Palps light brown. Tibia short, light brown. RTA short, slightly hooked ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 12 – 20 ). Tegulum much longer than wide. Embolus thin and long, set prolaterally (at 8 o ′clock). Legs I brown, ventral spination: pI: 2, tI: 2-2-2 (prolateral 1), mI: 2-2. Legs II lightbrown; ventral spination: pII: 0, tII: 2-2-2 (prolateral 1-1), mII: 2-2. Other legs light brown. Abdomen brown with longitudinal whitish stripes along the sides and the middle. Venter greyish. Spinnerets light brown.

Dimensions. CL 2.10, CW 1.60, CH 1.00, AL 2.00, AW 1.25, EFL 1.00, AEW 1.49, PEW 1.50, leg I: 5.94, leg II: 3.81, leg III: 3.83, leg IV: 4.43.

Female. Unknown.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

NEW

University of Newcastle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Trite

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