Myrmanu Prószyński, 2016,

Prószyński, Jerzy, 2016, Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world, Ecologica Montenegrina 7, pp. 4-32 : 8

Gen. Myrmanu Prószyński, 2016 gen. n.

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Type species. Myrmarachne nubilis Wanless, 1978 .

Documentation studied. Comparative diagnostic drawings of 2 species in Prószyński 2016a and original literature.

Etymology. Name combines words Myrmarachne and nubilis , grammar gender assumed female.

Diagnosis. Female. "Pipes-like" sclerotized spermathecae resemble these in Myrmarachne , however, their transversal detour is turned 90 degrees anteriorwards, as a result double coils of detour lie parallel to the main axis of epigyne, making compact group with the terminal parts of spermathecae ( Fig. 2D ). The presence of coils of copulatory ducts is distinctly marked, posteriorly to spermathecae on Wanless (1978) drawings, but without details, so their shape is unknown. Pocket is proportionately long and narrow, located between the posterior edge of epigyne and spermathecae. Pedicel relatively short, the abdomen of females not constricted, carapace with indistinct, shallow dorsal constriction.

Males unknown, without the knowledge of their palps the relationship with Myrmarachne is tentative.

Distribution. Madagascar.

More diagnostic documentation - see at: http://www.peckhamia.com/salticidae/q24- Myrmanu .html and, especially, Wanless (1978 a: 112, Figs 71D-F, 72D-F).

Composition. Two species from Madagascar, considered as Myrmarachne nubilis group of species by Wanless (1978: 110-113), are transferred from genus Myrmarachne MacLeay, 1839 : Myrmanu mahasoa ( Wanless, 1978) comb. n., M. nubilis ( Wanless, 1978) comb. n.

Figures

Figure 2. Diversity of internal structures of epigyne in MYRMARACHNINES: A – Myrmarachne tristis, B – C – M. ramosa compared with its alleged synonym M. melanocephala, D – Myrmanu nubilis, E – Myrmapeni chickeringi, F – Myrmagua guaranitica, G – Myrmaplata plataleoides, H – Myrmavola galianoae, I – Myrmapana panamensis, J – Myrmele peckhami. Sources: A, G, H – J. Prószyński, ©Annales zoologici, 2003, 51, 3: 109, Fig. 452; 1992, 44, 9: 85- 186, Figs 87; 2001, 51 (4): 520-521, Figs 10; B – J. Prószyński,©Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 2003, 12: 301, Fig. 29; C –Edwards & Benjamin, Zootaxa 2009, 2309: 10, Fig. 5C; D, J – F.R. Wanless, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology series) 33: 111, Fig. 72B; 119, Fig. 80D; 143, Fig. 70; Reproduced with the permission of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London; E, F – M. E. Galiano, Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Entomologia, Buenos Aires, 3: 143, Figs. 65; 136, Fig. 66