Phintelloides flavumi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019

Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa L., Addink, Wouter & Miller, Jeremy A., 2024, The genera Chrysilla and Phintelloides revisited with the description of a new species (Araneae, Salticidae) using digital specimen DOIs and nanopublications, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 129438-e 129438 : e129438-

Phintelloides flavumi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019

World Spider Catalog: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051095

Phintelloides flavumi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 - Kanesharatnam and Benjamin 2019: 35 , figs 3, 10 A-D, 14 A-F, 15 A-E, 16 A-D (mf) Sri Lanka.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: catalogNumber: RMNH. ARA. 18250 ; recordedBy: P. R. & C. L. Deeleman; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; otherCatalogNumbers: https://doi.org/10.3535/B59-03B-FWV; occurrenceID: 3E2FBFE3-4F1C-54E0-AC09-B662B82EFF44; Taxon: scientificName: Phintelloides flavumi ; Location: country: Sri Lanka; locality: Rathnapura ; verbatimCoordinates: 6 ° 42 ' N 80 ° 23 ' E; decimalLatitude: 6.7; decimalLongitude: 80.383333333333; Event: eventDate: 1981-08 - 22 / 23; habitat: forest below tennis club; Record Level: institutionID: https://ror.org/0566bfb96; institutionCode: RMNH; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Description

Additions to the description. Female. The total length of our female is similar to that given for the type specimen, however the legs in our specimen are 50 % shorter than the legs measured in the type specimen; the posterior legs are longer than the anterior legs unlike the type material. The underside of the abdomen has small iridescent scales, like scandens . Fig. 11 a , c shows the vulva, cleared in clove oil, viewed from ventral and ventrolateral. The bird’s neck-shaped curve tilts in ventral direction. The funnel-shaped openings (Fig. 11 c ) are the atrium (a), the copulatory opening is at the bottom of the funnel. As in Chrysilla . the atrium is delineated by an upper and a lower projection of the duct wall suggesting an opened birds’ beak. In male P. flavumi , according the description the embolar tegular branch is shorter than the adjacent tegulum; this would agree with the concept that during copulation, the bird’s beak (the atrium) lodges the tip of the etb and swallows the embolus through the copulatory opening whereas the more anteriorly situated cavity on the inner birds’ neck curve (Fig. 11 d : ibc) is spatially correctly situated to receive the tegular tip and at the same time fix the base on the posterior pocket (see sketch of P. scandens , Fig. 1 c ). Measurements. Total length 4.50, Carapace 2.0 long, 1.65 wide, 1.00 high. Abdomen 2.50 long. Legs: I 3.75 (1.15 – 0.65 – 0.85 - 0.60 – 0.50), leg II 3.70 (1.15 – 0.60 – 0.90 – 0.55 - 0.50), leg III 4.30 (1.40 – 0.60 – 0.90 – 1.00 – 0.40), Leg IV 4.30 (1.50 – 0.55 – 0.85 – 0.90 – 0.50), palp 0.70 – 0.60 – 0.30 - 0.35. Epigyne 0.25 wide, 0.30 long.

Figures

Figure 11 a. Phintelloides flavumi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019, female vulva, dorsal view, RMNH. ARA. 18250

Figure 11 c. Phintelloides flavumi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019, female vulva, oblique view, RMNH. ARA. 18250

Figure 11 d. Phintelloides flavumi Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019, female vulva, oblique view, illustration a atrium bnc bird’s neck curve co copulatory opening ibc inner bend of bird’s-neck shaped curve pp posterior pockets

Figure 1 c. Chrysilla lauta Thorell, 1887, ventral view, CM 15726, scale bar 0.2 mm