Padilothorus elegans (Reimoser, 1927) Prószyński, 2018

Prószyński, Jerzy, 2018, Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax, Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae) *, Ecologica Montenegrina 16, pp. 130-179 : 174

Padilothorus elegans (Reimoser, 1927) comb. n.

Figures 28 D-E

Padillothorax elegans Reimoser, 1927b: 2 , f. 2 (Df).

Padillothorax elegans Prószyński, 1984 a: 95 (f).

Stagetillus elegans Reimoser, 1927 - the WSC during many years - unwarranted generic transfer.

" Padillothorax" elegans Prószyński, 2017b: 26 , f. 56L (f, T to Padillothorax , cf. comment of the WSC ver. 18.5 at the genus Stagetillus ).

Type specimen - Padillothorax elegans Reimoser, 1927 .

Material. Holotype female " Padillothorax elegans : Sumatra, Pakor [Pk. Kotabaru] Jacobson " Coll. Reimoser, NH Museum, Wien. (drawing by Prószyński 1984 c: 95).

Diagnosis. Key characters are shown on Fig. 28 D-E, comparison with similar genera are shown on Figs 28 A-C and F-L.

Description. See facsimile of the original description of Padillithorax elegans below ( Fig. 30 ). Female. Body elongate and narrow, with carapace oval, abdomen strikingly narrow and long. Epigyne without distinct sclerotized edge, oval, elongate along longitudinal axis of body, with a pair of anterior shallow grooves and a large posterior median pocket ( Fig. 28 D-E), does not resemble any species of Bavia . No preparation was made of epigyne (to avoid damage to the sole known specimen) internal structures are visible indistinctly, as translucent spots. There are shadows of ducts running laterally from grooves to posterior, globular spermathecaea, a pair of median dark spots with fragments of short ducts (?) and a pair of short, diagonal lines. Male unknown, which makes classification to any group of genera impossible.

Distribution. Indonesia - Sumatra.

Figures

Figure 28-II. Diagnostic characters of genera Padilothorus, Padilothorax and Stagetilus. A-C - Stagetillus opaciceps Simon, 1885, D-E - Padillothorus elegans (Reimoser, 1927) (comb. n.), F-L - Padillothorax semiostrinus (Simon, 1901).

Figure 30. Facsimile of the original description of Padillothorax elegans by Reimoser (1927: 2, f. 2) (Note modern documentation of epigyne, resembling some publications of the last two decades).