Rhyphelia variegata Simon, 1902

Nobre, Welington B. & Ruiz, Gustavo R. S., 2024, On the boundary of the jumping spider genus Rhyphelia Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini), with description of ten new species, Zootaxa 5418 (5), pp. 471-500 : 474-475

Rhyphelia variegata Simon, 1902

Figs 1A–1D

Rhyphelia variegata Simon, 1902: 363 (Male holotype from Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, deposited in Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, examined); Simon 1903: 1053, figs 1120–1121; Galiano 1963: 429, pl. XXXIII, figs 10–12; World Spider Catalog 2023.

Diagnosis. The male of R. variegata is similar to that of R. brevistylus sp. nov. by the longer carapace (about 1.5x longer than wide, Figs 1A , 2A ; shorter, 1.3–1.4x longer than wide in the remaining species), by the developed tegular lobe ( Figs 1C , 3A ) and by the spurs on the border of the endites ( Fig. 1B ). The male of R. variegata differs from that of R. brevistylus by the long embolus, which reaches almost the length of the tegulum ( Fig. 1C ) (about one third the length of tegulum in R. brevistylus ; Fig. 3A ). The female is unknown.

Redescription. See Galiano (1963). Herein we give new illustrations of the holotype for comparison ( Figs 1A–D ).

Distribution. The original description mentions Caracas ( Venezuela) as the type locality, but the label states the actual type locality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ( Galiano 1963) ( Fig. 22 ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Rhyphelia variegata Simon, 1902, male holotype. A dorsal view; B chelicera and endites, ventral view; C–D right male palp, digitally inverted (C ventral view; D retrolateral view).

FIGURE 2. Rhyphelia brevistylus sp. nov. A–B male holotype (A dorsal view; B ventral view); C–D female (C dorsal view; D ventral view).

FIGURE 3. Rhyphelia brevistylus sp. nov. A–B male holotype, left palp (A ventral view; B retrolateral view); C epigyne, ventral view. D Rhyphelia bilineata sp. nov. epigyne, ventral view.

FIGURE 22. Map with individual symbols for the species of Rhyphelia described and recorded prior to this work (new species described herein are mapped as red triangles and separate in the next map). Brazilian states are in italics.