Habrocestoides validus Xie, Peng & Kim, 1993

Peng Xian-jin & Xie Li-ping, 1995, Spiders of the genus Habrocestoides from China (Araneae: Salticidae), Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10, pp. 57-64 : 57

Habrocestoides validus Xie, Peng & Kim, 1993 (Figs. 35-38)

Habrocestoides validus Xie et al., 1993: 25 , figs. 10-13 (♂).

Material." Male holotype, Lingxian , Hunan, July 1976, leg. Yin Chang-min ; 1♂ ‘, Jiangyong , Hunan, 16 August 1993, leg. Yan Hen-mei .

Diagnosis: This species resembles H. sinensis , but differs from the latter by: (1) pedipalp without thin streak of white setae found in the latter (Figs. 21, 22); (2) embolus more slender (Fig. 36); (3) tibial apophysis more robust, with blunt end (Figs. 36-38), that of H. sinensis with pointed end (Figs. 19,20); (4) bulb (Fig. 37) Without small outgrowth found in H. sinensis (Fig. 19).

Male: TL 3.35, _’CL 1.8, CW 1.45, AEW 1.3, PEW 1.3, EFL 0.75, AL 1.6, AW 1.3. Carapace dark brown with white hairs on lateral margin; dense brown setae behind eyes I and on lateral margins of eye field, eyes I straight. Chelicerae reddish brown, 2 promarginal teeth, 1 retromarginal. Sternum, endites and labium brown. Legs slender and short; distal part of femur, patella and tibia of leg I black-brown, other segments yellowish brown; legs II-IV yellowish brown with annuli on distal and basal ends of each segment. Abdomen oval, blackbrown, with dense brown and greyish white fine hairs; one curved band formed by greyish white hairs on anterior margin, many yellowish brown inclined striae laterally, four or five yellowish brown bands with greyish white hairs along median longitudinal line, two oval light patches at its sides (Fig. 35). Palpal organ (Figs. 36-38): embolus slender, finger-shaped in ventral view; tibial apophysis stout, curved and blunt ended; bulbus with triangular lateral projection.

Female: Unknown.

Distribution: China (Hunan).