Lapsias estebanensis Simon, 1900

Maddison, Wayne P., 2019, A new lapsiine jumping spider from North America, with a review of Simon's Lapsias species (Araneae, Salticidae, Spartaeinae), ZooKeys 891, pp. 17-29 : 17

Lapsias estebanensis Simon, 1900 Figs 12-18

Type material.

In MNHN, 2 males from La Cumbre, San Esteban, Carabobo State, Venezuela, with label "21196 Laps. estebanensis E.S., S. Esteban! La Cumbre!". Galiano (1963) designated one male as lectotype, which I presume to be that in a separate microvial with her label "Typus? M.E. Galiano II 1959". The type vial also has a recent label "det Szűts 0015". Because the old handwritten label was fragile and fragmenting, I made a copy, which I added to the type vial.

Notes.

This is the most robust of the four Venezuelan species, with males having enlarged chelicerae ( Figs 15-17 ). The retromarginal tooth closest the fang is larger and curved ( Fig. 18 ). The palp bears a close resemblance to that of L. tovarensis , but differs in the shorter, straighter embolus and distinctly larger apophysis (c? in Fig. 14 ) accompanying the embolus.

Figures

Figures 12 - 18. Lapsias estebanensis, lectotype male 12 - 14 palp 12 ventral view 13 retrolateral view of tibia 14 ventral view 15 dorsal view of body 16 ventral view of body 17 oblique view of prosoma 18 chelicerae from below. Abbreviations: e embolus, c? scerite homologous to that called the conductor in other lapsiines, ma median apophysis. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (12); 1.0 mm (otherwise).