Chapoda fortuna, Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, Wayne P., 2012

Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, Wayne P., 2012, New euophryine jumping spiders from Central and South America (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae), Zootaxa 3578, pp. 1-35 : 7-8

Chapoda fortuna sp. nov.

Figs 22–24

Type material. Holotype: male, PANAMA: Chiriqui: Fortuna , Quebrada Samudio, 8.73464° N, 82.24839° W, elev. 1209–1245 m, 21 September 2008, coll. J. Zhang & G. B. Edwards, JXZ08#002 (UBC-SEM AR00141). Paratype: 1 male, same data as holotype.

Etymology. A noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

Diagnosis. Similar to Chapoda panamana Chickering, 1946 in the shape of the ventral process on the palpal femur ( Fig. 24 ), but differs in the presence of a proximal tegular lobe and the wide retrolateral sperm duct loop of the male palp ( Fig. 23 ), the one unident retromarginal tooth on the male chelicera ( C. panamana has one bicuspid retromarginal tooth on the chelicera).

Description. Male (holotype, UBC-SEM AR00141). Carapace length 1.4 (variation 1.4–1.6, n=2); abdomen length 1.4. Carapace with two tufts behind AMEs. Chelicera: promargin with two teeth, retromargin with one tooth. Palp ( Figs 23–24 ): yellow brown. Proximal tegular lobe present; retrolateral sperm duct loop almost as wide as palpal bulb; embolus short and slightly curved; retrolateral tibial apophysis narrow and finger-like; ventral tibial bump distinct; palpal patella not wide, femur of palp with a ventral process near the center. Measurements of legs: I 2.9, II 2.5, III 3.0, IV 3.4. Color in alcohol ( Fig. 22 ): carapace dark brown, lateral margins with sparse white scales, without guanine deposits in eye area; abdomen dark brown with many brownish speckles, anterior part with a large middle stripe followed with four parallel streaks, all brownish in color; legs dark yellow brown, last two pairs of legs with yellowish brown annuli.

Female. Unknown.

Natural history. Specimens were collected by beating mossy branches in a wet forest.

Figures

FIGURES 22 – 24. Chapoda fortuna sp. nov. 22 male paratype, dorsal view; 23 male left palp, ventral view; 24 male left palp (with patella and femur), retrolateral view. Scale bars: 22, 0.5 mm; 23 – 24, 0.2 mm.