Frigga crocuta ( Taczanowski 1878 )

Bedoya-Roqueme, Edwin & Lopez-Villada, Samia, 2020, Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Department of Córdoba in the Caribbean Region of Colombia, Peckhamia 224 (1), pp. 1-23 : 15-16

14. Frigga crocuta ( Taczanowski 1878)

Amycus crocutus Taczanowski 1878 ; Sandalodes calvus Simon 1902 ; Berland 1933; Phiale orvillei Chickering 1946 ; Phiale crocuta Galiano 1968 ; Phiale coronigera Roth & Craig 1970 ; Frigga crocuta Galiano 1979a, 1981 ; Davies & Żabka 1989.

Material examined. 3♀ [ Figure 37 ] Colombia, Córdoba, Momíl-Purisima [N9.222435°, W75.716766°], [8m] 18 Apr 2008, Swamp, Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms 1883 , collected by hand, G . Salleg-Perez ; I . Wild coll . ( LEUC; OARA –173). Type material deposited in the FDACS, MCZ, MPM, PAN not examined .

Diagnosis. According to Galiano (1979a, 1979b) the females of Frigga crocuta can be distinguished from the other species of Frigga by the very shall anterior fossa of their epigyne, so situated that the entrance small, circular orifices to the canals are on the surface (see Galiano 1979b, fig. 6). The ducts are cylindrical, almost parallel at first (see Galiano 1979a, fig. 30; Galiano 1979b, fig. 7). Then they are bent at a right angle and the second section is horizontal, very short, entering the spermatheca through its posterolateral part (see Galiano 1979a, fig. 30; Galiano 1979b, fig. 7).

Measurements (mm; specimens from Colombia). Three females: TL= 6.1-6.4; CL= 3.05-3.1; CW= 2.3-2.5; AL= 2.88-3.1; AERW = 1.95-2.0; PERW = 1.82-1.96; LOQ= 1.33-1.35; PMEP =0.29-0.30; eyes of the second row separated from the ALE by 0.40 mm and from the PLE by 0.36-0.38mm.

Distribution: Frigga crocuta is known from Australia, Chile, Colombia, Cook Islands, Ecuador, French Polynesia, Galapagos Islands, Marquesas Islands, New Caledonia, Norway, Panama, Peru, Society Islands, Tahiti, and the Tuamotu Islands ( Metzner, 2020; WSC, 2020)

Figures

Figures 37-42. Frigga crocuta and F. pratensis. 37, Female F. crocuta, dorsal view. 38, Female F. pratensis, dorsal view. 39-42, Male F. pratensis. 40, Right pedipalp, ventral view. 41, Left pedipalp, retrolateral view. 42, right palp, prolateral view.