Marpissa pauariensis, 2008

Biswas, Bijan & Roy, Rakhi, 2008, Description Of Six New Species Of Spiders Of The Genera Lathys (Family: Dictynidae), Marpissa (Family: Salticidae), Misumenoides (Family: Thomisidae), Agroeca (Family: Clubionidae), Gnaphosa (Family: Gnaphosidae) And Flanona (Family: Lycosidae) - From India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 108 (1), pp. 43-57 : 46-48

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.556084

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4426602

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CBAD7B-FFDB-154E-7BB9-F84E1E06FB1C

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scientific name

Marpissa pauariensis
status

sp. novo

2. Marpissa pauariensis View in CoL View at ENA sp. novo

( Figs. 4-6 View Figs. 4 - 6 )

General: Cephalothorax deep brown, yellowish brown and legs are light brown in colour. Total length 7.50 mm. Carapace 3.50 mm. long, 3.00 mm. wide; abdomen 4.50 mm. long, 3.00 mm. wide.

Cephalothorax: Longer than wide, slightly high in front, gradually slopping towards posterior and lateral sides. Flat cephalic region with profuse fine hair and few comparatively long hair at the front of the cephalothorax. Three rows of eyes. Pearly white antero-median eyes are longer than the laterals. Second row of eyes are very small and situated more or less in equidistant from anterolateral to postero-Iaterals. Posterior row of eyes larger than the second row of eyes. Chelicerae with one tooth on inner and very small two teeth on outer margin. Labium longer that wide, maxillae provided with scopulae. Sternum nearly oval narrowing anteriorly covered with whitish hair. Legs I and II provided with two pairs of ventral spines. Legs formulae are 4321.

Abdomen: Longer than wide, light brown, clothed with fine whitish hair. Ventral side pale in colour.

Type species Holotype female preserved in rectified spirit (70%). Registration number is 5584118 .

Type-locality: Duga , District Pauri, Uttaranchal, India, 26.vi.2004, coIl. S.K. Chatterjee & party.

Distribution: India: Uttaranchal, Duga.

Remarks: This species nearly resembles with Marpissa decorata Tikader but it is separated as follows (1) Colour pattern of abdomen is different. (2) There is no whitish lateral and longitudinal band in Marpissa pauriensis Sp. novo which is present in Marpissa decorata Tikader (3) Epigyne and internal genitalia are also structurally different.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

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