Bryantella smaragda ( Crane 1945 )

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 : 9

7. Bryantella smaragda ( Crane 1945)

Parnaenus smaragdus Crane 1945 ; Parnaenus convexus Chickering 1946 ; Prószyński 1971; Bryantella smaragdus Scioscia 1988, 1995 ; Bryantella smaragda Prószyński 2017a .

Material examined. 4♀ Colombia, Córdoba, Momil-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 –112). Type material deposited in the AMNH, MCZ not examined .

Diagnosis. According to Scioscia (1988, 1995), female Bryantella smaragda are easily distinguished from other species by the appearance of the epigyne and the chelicerae (see Scioscia 1988, figs. 21-23; Scioscia 1995, figs. 7.12).

Measurements (mm; specimens from Colombia). Four females: TL= 8.9-9.16; CL= 3.9-4.2; CW= 3.35-3.4; AL= 6.79-6.8; AERW = 2.26-2.31; PERW = 2.41-2.43; LOQ= 1.69-1.7; PMEP =0.28-0.31; eyes of the second row separated from the ALE by 0.49 mm and from the PLE by 0.74-0.76 mm.

Distribution. Bryantella smaragda is known from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, and Venezuela.

Salticinae : Salticoida: Marpissoida: Dendryphantini: Dendryphantina: Gastromicans Mello-Leitão 1917