Jotus debilis L. Koch, 1881

Baehr, Barbara C., Schubert, Joseph & Harms, Danilo, 2019, The Brushed Jumping Spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Jotus L. Koch, 1881) from Eastern Australia, Evolutionary Systematics 3 (1), pp. 53-73 : 53

Jotus debilis L. Koch, 1881

Jotus debilis L. Koch, 1881a: pp. 1252-1253, pl. 107, figs 5-5 c.

Material examined.

Type? Female: AUSTRALIA: New South Wales, Sydney [ca. 33°51'S, 151°12'E] (ZMH-A0001635; GODEFFROY Nr. 8630), coll. C.F.E. Dämel.

Other material examined.

Only known from type specimen.

Remarks.

Koch described and illustrated a female specimen and Rack (1961) also gave this specimen as a female in her catalogue of ZMH spiders. We re-examined this specimen that is in fact a male and does not match the original description by Koch. It is possible that the type specimen was misplaced or is lost and no other specimens are currently known. We are unable to comment on the status of this species, except that the specimen described by Koch is unlikely to belong to Jotus and has a somatic and genital morphology that does not match the current concept of this genus (Otto & Hill, 2016).