Phlegra albostriata Simon, 1901

Wesołowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2014, An overview of the jumping spiders of Lesotho (Araneae: Salticidae), with descriptions of six new species, African Invertebrates 55 (2), pp. 229-229 : 257-258

Phlegra albostriata Simon, 1901

Figs 94–97

Phlegra albostriata Simon, 1901 c: 73 ; Lessert 1936: 294, fig. 91.

Diagnosis: The species is similar to P. bresnieri (Lucas, 1846) , but differs in having a clearly longer embolus (compare Fig. 94 with fig. 1 in Logunov & Azarkina 2006).

Description:

Male.

Measurements: Cephalothorax: length 2.2, width 1.4, height 0.7. Eye field: length 0.8, anterior width 1.1, posterior width 1.2. Abdomen damaged, not measured.

Specimen in poor condition, previously dehydrated. Carapace almost black, with lustre, eye field short; colourless translucent hairs cover carapace, dense long brown bristles on eye field. Abdomen badly damaged, dark. Ventral surface of body blackish. Legs black, only tarsi slightly lighter; leg hairs dense, dark. Pedipalps black, with two long thin tibial apophyses ( Figs 94–97 ); embolus thin and long, extending beyond distal margin of cymbium ( Fig. 94 ).

Female unknown.

Material examined: Maseru district: 1♂ Mohale Dam, Islands , 29°25'S 28°06'E, 2060 m, under rocks, 4.xii.2003, det. G. Azarkina ( NCA 2013 /3104) .

Distribution: A species known from South Africa and Mozambique. In Lesotho, only recorded from a single central locality ( Fig. 102 ).

Figures

Figs 94–97. Phlegra albostriata, ♂: (94) palpal organ, ventral view; (95) same, retrolateral-ventral view; (96) same, retrolateral view; (97) palpal tibia, dorsal view.

Fig. 102. Distribution of Salticidae from Lesotho.