Habrocestum albimanum Simon, 1901

Wesołowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2013, New data on the jumping spiders of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae), African Invertebrates 54 (1), pp. 177-177 : 199-200

Habrocestum albimanum Simon, 1901

Figs 68–70

Habrocestum albimanum: Simon 1901: 71 .

Diagnosis: The male has a unique embolus form, composed of two branches joined by a membrane, and may be also recognized by the presence of a tuft of white hairs at the base of the cymbium dorsally. Female unknown.

Redescription:

Male.

Measurements. Cephalothorax: length 2.6, width 2.0, height 1.3. Abdomen: length 2.2, width 1.8. Eye field: length 1.1, anterior width 1.7, posterior width 1.6.

Medium-sized, hairy spider. Carapace oval, high, with very steep posterior slope; eye field short, distance between anterior lateral eyes slightly larger than between posterior laterals; carapace dark brown, eyes black; carapace with thin median white line along thoracic part, short greyish brown hairs covering sides, and dense thick blunt bristles on eye field. Clypeus moderately high, dark; anterior eyes encircled by fawn hairs. Chelicerae unidentate. Labium and sternum dark brown, endites with slightly paler chewing margins.Abdomen small, narrower than carapace, dark brown, with wide pale transverse band anteriorly and large triangular patch in posterior half. Venter dark yellow, with broad brown streak and two lateral lines composed of dark dots. Hairs corresponding to background colour cover dorsum of abdomen, with longer bristles among them. Spinnerets brownish. Legs dark brown, coxae, trochanters and lateral surfaces of femora orange. Leg hairs dense, long, brown and greyish. Pedipalps faint brown, clothed in dense long dark hairs, with dense white hairs only on prolateral sides of patella, tibia and base of cymbium. Palp with short tibial apophysis, slightly bent ventrally near tip; embolus composed of two branches joined by membrane ( Figs 68–70).

Material examined: SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape: 1♂ Malmesburg, Yzerfontein , 33°21'S 18°07'E, under plants, 25.x.1973, L. Lotz ( NMBA) .

Distribution: Species known only from South Africa ( Fig. 71).

Habitat and biology: As for most Habrocestum , this species appears to be a grounddweller.

Remarks: The specimen was determined on the basis of the original description and of drawings of the specimen from Cape Town kept in the MCZ (Prószyński 2012).