Paraharmochirus Szombathy, 1915

Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, Wayne P., 2012, New euophryine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae) 3491, Zootaxa 3491, pp. 1-74 : 36

Genus Paraharmochirus Szombathy, 1915

Ant-like jumping spiders. Tibia, patella and femur of first pair of legs are robust; tibia has ventral fringes; metatarsus and tarsus are much thinner. Lateral margins of carapace are convex at PLEs and carapace has many punctures. Abdomen has a constriction dorsally. Epigynum has window, which is typical in Euophryinae . However, the male palp is quite distinctive from other euophryines in that embolus coils clockwise (left palp ventral view) instead of anti-clockwise as seen in most other euophryines. The inclusion of this genus within the subfamily Euophryinae here is mainly based on unpublished molecular data.

Only one species, Paraharmochirus monstrosus Szombathy, 1915 (from New Guinea), has been reported ( Platnick 2012), of which the type specimen may have been lost (Tamás Szű ts, personal communication). The species recently collected from Papua New Guinea is similar to P. monstrosus in the shape of carapace and first pair of legs, and the presence of punctures on the carapace. However, it is not congruent with the original description of P. monstrosus Szombathy in the male palpal structure and the tooth pattern of chelicera, and therefore is described here as a new species.