Hersiliola versicolor ( Blackwall, 1865 )

Marusik, Yuri & Fet, Victor, 2009, A survey of East Palaearctic Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Hersiliidae), with a description of three new genera, ZooKeys 16 (16), pp. 75-114 : 83

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.16.229

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3792014

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Hersiliola versicolor ( Blackwall, 1865 )
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Hersiliola versicolor ( Blackwall, 1865) View in CoL

Fig. 7 View Figure 7 .1 Hersilia View in CoL v. Blackwall, 1865: 81 (D ♀).

H. v.: Simon 1893: 445.

H. v.: Foord and Dippenaar-Schoeman 2005: 261, f. 4A-D (♀).

Material examined: A slide of an epigyne ( SMF, from the H. Wiehle collection) from “Kapeverde, Maio ” [= Cape Verde Islands, Maio Island]. Identified as H. simoni .

Diagnosis. H. versicolor is similar to H. simoni , but differs from it by the shape of the median plate of the epigyne, which is much higher and has a wider septum.

Description. Redescribed by Foord and Dippenaar-Schoeman (2005).

Comments. This species is known from females only. The shape of the median plate illustrated by Foord and Dippenaar-Schoeman (2005: fig. 4A View Figure 4 ) appears to be misinterpreted, judging from the figure of the vulva, and from the specimen (a slide of the epigyne) examined by us. Black dots on their fig. 4A View Figure 4 and on our Fig. 7.1 seem to correspond to accessory glands. On the slide, glands seem to be displaced due to pressure from the cover glass.

Distribution. Known only from the Cape Verde Islands.

SMF

Forschungsinstitut und Natur-Museum Senckenberg

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Hersiliidae

Genus

Hersiliola

Loc

Hersiliola versicolor ( Blackwall, 1865 )

Marusik, Yuri & Fet, Victor 2009
2009
Loc

Hersilia

Blackwall J 1865: 81
1865
Loc

Simon 1893: 445
Loc

Foord and Dippenaar-Schoeman 2005: 261
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