Herennia multipuncta (Doleschall 1859)

Jäger, Peter, 2007, Spiders from Laos with descriptions of new species (Arachnida: Araneae), Acta Arachnologica 56 (1), pp. 29-58 : 37

Herennia multipuncta (Doleschall 1859)

Fig. 7

Material examined. 1 juvenile ( SMF 56641 ), L1. 1 female, 1 juvenile ( SMF 56692 ), L7, 10.111.2006 . 1 male, 2 juveniles ( SMF 56700 ), L7, 11.111.2006 . 1 male without pedipalpi ( SMF 56687 ) , 2 females ( SMF 56222 ), L15, single trees, 8. III.2006 . 3 females, 2 juveniles ( SMF 56672 ), L19, tree bark . 1 female ( SMF 56332 ), L25 .

The specimens from Laos represent the first record for this country. Moreover, it is firstly shown ( Fig. 7 ) that specimens of Argyrodes sp. live in webs of Herennia multipuncta . In Singapore, only one of about 100 webs of Herennia multipuncta (most were juvenile) contained an Argyrodes specimen (Kuntner & Court, pers. comm, in 2007).

Figures

Figs. 6 - 7. 6 Hersilia asiatica Song & Zheng 1982, female from That Se (L 13). 7 Herennia multipuncta (Doleschall 1859), female from Tham Done (L 19) with egg-sac (black arrow; partly camouflagued) and Argyrodes specimen in the web (white arrow).