Rogmocrypta raveni, Patoleta, Barbara M., Gardzinska, Joanna & Żabka, Marek, 2017

Patoleta, Barbara M., Gardzinska, Joanna & Żabka, Marek, 2017, New species of Rogmocrypta Simon, 1900 from New Caledonia, with remarks on relationships and distribution (Araneae, Salticidae), ZooKeys 697, pp. 73-86 : 76-78

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.697.13381

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8A020BFF-2D8F-4D8F-9EDA-510F8FB8E22C

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scientific name

Rogmocrypta raveni
status

sp. n.

Rogmocrypta raveni View in CoL sp. n. Figures 28-36, 44

Material.

1♀ holotype, New Caledonia: Mt. Panié (20°35'S, 164°45'E), 400m elev., pitfalls, October 1992 - February 1993, Raven R, Guillbert E, Ingram G, QM S35759; 2♀♀ paratypes, same data as holotype.

Etymology.

For Dr Robert Raven (Queensland Museum, Brisbane), distinguished Australian arachnologist and collector of the material studied.

Diagnosis.

Abdomen with white dorsal and ventral spots (Figs 29-31). Copulatory openings oriented anteriorly (Fig. 35), copulatory ducts undulating (Fig. 36).

Description.

Female holotype. Cephalothorax brown, with darker cephalic part, covered by sparse whitish scales. Foveal depression well marked (Fig. 28). Abdomen ovoid, grey brown with lighter pattern as in Fig. 31, covered with sparse brown hairs. Anterior spinnerets light brown, posterior ones whitish. Palps brown. Legs I brown, others lighter. Chelicerae brown, retromarginal tooth 5-cuspidate (Fig. 33). Labium and endites light brown, with lighter chewing margins. Sternum brown. Venter with white and greyish brown pattern (Fig. 30). Epigyne with copulatory openings well separated from each other and from spermathecae, the last in diagonal position, C-shaped (Figs 34-36). Dimensions. CL 1.30, CW 1.03, CH 0.60, EFL 0.60, AEW 1.00, PEW 0.95, AL 1.50, AW 1.07, LI: 4.05, LII: 2.85, LIII: 2.70, LIV: 3.15.

Male unknown.

Distribution.

Known from type locality only (Fig. 44).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Rogmocrypta