Pellenes modicus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000

Wiśniewski, Konrad & Wesołowska, Wanda, 2024, Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda - revised list, new species and distributional data, European Journal of Taxonomy 952, pp. 1-171 : 83-85

Pellenes modicus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000

Fig. 53

Pellenes modicus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 81 , figs 215–216.

Pellenes modicus – Haddad & Wesołowska 2011: 97 , figs 110–111, 128–132.

Material examined

UGANDA • 1 ♂; Mt Elgon , Swam river [stones among grass]; 17 Feb. 1938; Å. Holm leg.; MEU .

Redescription

Male

Light coloured, hairy spider.

MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 2.1, width 1.8, height 1.0. Eye field length 1.2, anterior width 1.3, posterior width 1.4. Abdomen length 2.0, width 1.3.

CARAPACE. Moderately high, light brown, slightly darker marginally, black in vicinity of eyes. Dorsum covered with dense recumbent scale-like hairs, among them sparse brown bristles. Some white scales at eyes and on carapace slopes. Clypeus clothed in white hairs. Chelicerae dark brown with vertical light stripes formed by white hairs on anterior surfaces ( Fig. 53A ). Mouthparts and sternum light brown.

ABDOMEN. Ovoid, brown with median light serrate belt, covered with dense hairs, venter yellowish. Spinnerets dirty yellow.

LEGS. Dark yellow, first pair brownish. Leg hairs and spines brown, tibia I with long dense hairs.

PALPS. Yellowish, white hairs on bases of tibia and cymbium. Palpal organ as in Fig. 53B – F , tibial apophysis stout, corresponding to large recess of cymbium.

Description

Female

For description of female see Haddad & Wesołowska (2011).

Distribution

Previously known from Tanzania and South Africa, this is the first record from Uganda.

Figures

Fig. 53. Pellenes modicus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000, ♂ (MEU). A. General appearance, frontal view. B, E. Palpal organ, ventral view. C. Palpal organ, ventrolateral view. D, F. Palpal organ, lateral view. G. Embolic division.