Tusitala guineensis Berland & Millot, 1941

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 : 126-128

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A1A437F5-095C-43F7-BC18-66D53640F30E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7225722

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FD87C3-B15B-345B-FDAF-5ADAFDDB6346

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Tusitala guineensis Berland & Millot, 1941
status

 

Tusitala guineensis Berland & Millot, 1941 View in CoL

Fig. 75 View Fig

Tusitala guineensis Berland & Millot, 1941: 395 View in CoL , fig. 89.

Material examined

IVORY COAST • 1 ♀; Cavally Forest ; 19 Nov. 1975; “sur branches au bord de la route”; MNHN 1 ♀; Man , road to Mt Tonkoui; 7°27′ N, 7°38′ W; 900–1000 m a.s.l.; 11 Nov. 1975; “branches au bord de la route”; MNHN GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis

The female of this species differs from the congeners in the structure of the epigyne. The seminal ducts are short and do not form loops, while in other species they are always coiled.

Redescription

Male

Unknown.

Female

MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 2.5–2.7, width 1.9–2.0, height 1.1–1.2. Eye field length 1.2–1.3, anterior and posterior width 1.8–1.9. Abdomen length 3.0–3.1, width 2.1. General appearance as in Fig. 75A. View Fig

CARAPACE. Oval, gently sloping behind eye field, dark brown with longitudinal thin lighter streak on thoracic part. Black rings around eyes, anterior eyes encircled by fawn scales from above and whitish from below, long brown bristles at first row of eyes. Carapace clothed in fine whitish grey hairs, white hairs form patch at posterior edge of eye field and transverse line behind anterior eyes. Clypeus with white hairs, three thin white lines beneath anterior lateral eyes. Chelicerae long, dark brown with dentition typical for members of this genus (two teeth on promargin and two-apex tooth on retromargin). Labium and endites brown with whitish tips, sternum light brown.

ABDOMEN. Brownish with white streak on anterior edge overlaping to sides, wide yellowish serrated streak on dorsum, numerous brown bristles on dorsal surface. Venter laterally brown, medially creamy with brownish streak in the middle. Spinnerets brownish.

LEGS. Brown, spines and leg hairs brown. EPIGYNE. As in Fig. 75B–C View Fig , with a pair of troughs leading to copulatory openings. Seminal ducts broad and short, forming strongly sclerotized reservoirs preceding spermathecae ( Fig. 75D View Fig ).

Remarks

Tusitala guineensis was described on the base of single female from Guinea.Although the type specimen is lost, the original description, especially the figure of the epigyne, allow identification of this species.

Distribution

Hitherto known only from Guinea.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Tusitala

Loc

Tusitala guineensis Berland & Millot, 1941

Wesołowska, Wanda & Russell-Smith, Anthony 2022
2022
Loc

Tusitala guineensis

Berland L. & Millot J. 1941: 395
1941
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