Pulcherula magna, Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022

Wesołowska, Wanda & Russell-Smith, Anthony, 2022, Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J. - C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 841 (1), pp. 1-143 : 99-100

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7225705

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D861CAE4-B058-4972-9227-406FE2CD76D1

taxon LSID

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treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Pulcherula magna
status

gen. et sp. nov.

Pulcherula magna gen. et sp. nov.

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Figs 56–57 View Fig View Fig

Diagnosis

This species has a characteristic reddish fawn colouration. The male is distinguished by the unique form of the pedipalp with a very large anterior process of a complex shape and a strongly sclerotized retrolateral side of the bulb ( Fig. 57B View Fig ).

Etymology

The specific name is Latin, meaning ‘large’, and refers to the palpal size.

Material examined

Holotype IVORY COAST • ♂; Man , Mt Tonkoui; 7°27′ N, 7°38′ W; 900–1000 m a.s.l.; 4 Mar. 1975; “litière”; MNHN. GoogleMaps

Description

Male

MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 1.3, width 1.0, height 0.9. Eye field length 0.6, anterior and posterior width 0.9. Abdomen length 1.1, width 0.9. General appearance as in Fig. 56A–B View Fig . Very tiny spider with relatively large palps.

CARAPACE. High, with slope starting around middle of thoracic part, posteriorly carapace slope steep ( Fig. 56B View Fig ). Carapace clothed in dense reddish fawn hairs, thin whitish streak along edges, eyes surrounding by black area, anteriors encircled by fawn scales, long bristles at first row of eyes. Clypeus high, black with white hairs. Chelicerae dark yellow, long, with single tooth on retromargin and two teeth on promargin, fang short. Endites, labium and sternum light brown.

ABDOMEN. Oval, black and shining, with two transverse thin white streaks, anterior third clothed in dense orange reddish hairs, among them some long brown bristles ( Fig. 56A View Fig ). Venter yellowish. Spinnerets black.

LEGS. With femora and patellae brown, tibiae yellowish with brown rings at both ends, distal segments yellow. First leg with two spines on femur dorsally, tibia with four pairs of ventral spines (distal pair shorter), metatarsus with two pairs ventrally.

PEDIPALPS. Relatively large ( Fig. 56B View Fig ), densely covered with white hairs, their structure in Figs 56C–F View Fig , 57 View Fig . Cymbium with a narrow apical part, curved towards the bulb ( Fig. 56C View Fig ). With a single pointed tibial apophysis. Bulb large, strongly sclerotized retrolaterally ( Fig. 56E View Fig ), with a large peculiar outgrowth on the distal part ( Fig. 56C, E View Fig ) enveloping embolus ( Fig. 57B View Fig ).

Female

Unknown.

Distribution

Only known from the type locality, Mt Tonkoui, Ivory Coast.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Pulcherula

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