Myrmarachne dundoensis Wanless, 1978

Wesołowska, Wanda & Wiśniewski, Konrad, 2015, New data on Belippo and Myrmarachne of Kenya (Araneae: Salticidae: Myrmarachninae), Zootaxa 3980 (4), pp. 547-561 : 555-556

Myrmarachne dundoensis Wanless, 1978

Figs 31–33

Myrmarachne dundoensis Wanless 1978: 82 , figs 51 a–i, 52 a–e.

Material examined. Brodericks Falls, 0°37′N 34°46′E, 1500 m, in grass, 1 ♂, 7 April 1938.

Description. Male. Carapace with small thoracic hump, dark brown, eye field iridescent. Fine whitish hairs covering carapace, forming white bands on its constriction. Four long trichobothria posteriorly from constriction. Sternum and mouthparts brown. Chelicerae as in Fig. 31 , relatively short and robust, fang with two apophyses. Abdomen brown with two dorsal scuta. Venter and spinnerets dark. Coxae and legs brown, tibia of the first pair of legs with five pairs of ventral spines, metatarsus with two pairs. Pedipalps brown, densely clothed in dark hairs, copulatory organs as in Figs 32, 33 , tibial apophysis relatively long. Dimensions. Cephalothorax: length 2.5, width 1.3, height 0.8. Abdomen: length 2.7, width 1.3. Eye field: length 0.9, anterior width 1.1, posterior width 1.2. Female. See Wanless (1978: 82).

Distribution. Species known from Angola and Botswana; in Kenya recorded for the first time.

Figures

FIGURES 31 – 33. Myrmarachne dundoensis, male. 31 chelicera, ventral view; 32 left palpal organ, ventral view; 33 same, retrolateral view.