Heliophanus (Heliophanus) capicola 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 : 237-238

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.7662026

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BA5187A2-FFB5-8021-3F48-DD3BEBACFBD7

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Felipe

scientific name

Heliophanus (Heliophanus) capicola Simon, 1901
status

 

Heliophanus (Heliophanus) capicola Simon, 1901 View in CoL

Figs 24, 25 View Figs 24, 25

Heliophanus capicola Simon, 1901 a: 52 View in CoL , fig. 1; Wesołowska 1986: 225, figs 807–813.

Wesołowska (1986) described both sexes.

Diagnosis: The female of H. capicola can be recognised from congeners by the laterally placed copulatory openings and the sharply bending seminal ducts, leading to the oval median spermathecae ( Figs 24, 25 View Figs 24, 25 ). The male (not treated here) is characterised by the spike-like embolus and the presence of a retrolateral-distally directed small lobe of the bulb (see Wesołowska 1986: fig. 807).

Description:

Female.

Measurements: Cephalothorax: length 1.6–1.7, width 1.2–1.3, height 0.8. Eye field: length 0.7–0.8, anterior width 1.0–1.1, posterior width 1.1–1.2. Abdomen: length 2.2–2.9, width 1.5–1.9.

Body very dark, almost black, with metallic lustre; some specimens with traces of light line along anterior edge of abdomen and pair of round spots on dorsum posteriorly. Venter dark. Legs blackish, only tarsi slightly lighter. Epigyne with two large oval depressions ( Fig. 24 View Figs 24, 25 ); internal structure as in Fig. 25 View Figs 24, 25 .

Material examined: Maseru district: 11♀ Mohale Dam, Islands , 29°25'S 28°06'E, 2060 m, under rocks, 14.xii.2003 ( NCA 2013 /3025) GoogleMaps .

Distribution: Hitherto known only from South Africa. Recorded from a single locality in central Lesotho ( Fig. 48 View Fig ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Heliophanus

Loc

Heliophanus (Heliophanus) capicola Simon, 1901

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

Heliophanus capicola

WESOLOWSKA, W. 1986: 225
1986
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