Thyenula armata Wesołowska, 2001

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 : 259-260

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7680935

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:20997FAA-CE3B-4952-8E2C-1DED9DBE6CEB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7662058

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BA5187A2-FFA3-8037-3FBE-DB18E81BFA73

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Thyenula armata Wesołowska, 2001
status

 

Thyenula armata Wesołowska, 2001 View in CoL

Figs 72 View Figs 69–73 , 98, 99 View Figs 98–101

Thyenula armata Wesołowska, 2001: 261 View in CoL , figs 1–6, 10, 11.

Wesołowska (2001) described both sexes.

Diagnosis: The female is recognised by the structure of the epigyne, which has very long seminal ducts forming a loop in the anterior part of the epigyne (see Wesołowska 2001: fig. 10). The male (not treated here) is characterised by the presence of a strongly sclerotised keel on the abdominal venter (see Wesołowska 2001: fig. 3).

Description:

Female.

Measurements. Cephalothorax: length 2.2–2.4, width 1.4–1.5, height 0.9–1.0. Eye field: length 0.9–1.1, anterior and posterior width 1.2–1.4. Abdomen: length 3.0–3.1, width 2.4–2.5.

General appearance as in Fig. 72 View Figs 69–73 . Carapace moderately high, dark brown, clothed in grey hairs, among them long brown bristles, numerous on eye field. Clypeus covered with light hairs. Chelicerae dark brown, labium and endites brownish with wide light tips, sternum almost black with some light hairs. Abdomen dark brown with traces of lighter markings, densely covered with brown and grey hairs, with scattered fawn hairs. Sides and venter brownish grey. Spinnerets dark. Legs light brown with darker rings on distal ends of femora and bases and tips of other segments. Epigyne with large shallow depression ( Fig. 98 View Figs 98–101 ). Seminal ducts long, forming loops anteriorly, their inlet parts thin and very weakly sclerotized; small accessory glands leading into terminal parts of the ducts; spermathecae large, bean-shaped ( Fig. 99 View Figs 98–101 ).

Material examined: Thaba-Tseka district: 3♀ Near Thaba-Tseka , 29°30'S 28°28'E, 2840 m, under rocks, grassland, 17.iii.2013, leg. J. van Niekerk ( NCA 2013 / 3113 ) GoogleMaps .

Distribution: Previously known only from the type locality, Golden Gate National Park in the eastern Free State Province, South Africa. Recorded from a single locality in central Lesotho ( Fig. 102 View Fig ).

Remarks: These specimens are clearly darker than the type specimens. The body is uniformly dark ( Fig. 72 View Figs 69–73 ), whereas specimens from South Africa have two light stripes on the thoracic part of the carapace.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Thyenula

Loc

Thyenula armata Wesołowska, 2001

Wesołowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R. 2014
2014
Loc

Thyenula armata Wesołowska, 2001: 261

Wesolowska 2001: 261
2001
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