Heliophanus improcerus Wesołowska, 1986
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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:00BEAF45-3564-4079-BB79-504FF82966C6 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13752417 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039D879D-FF8D-FFEB-3318-5F79FBBDFE7A |
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Plazi |
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Heliophanus improcerus Wesołowska, 1986 |
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Heliophanus improcerus Wesołowska, 1986 View in CoL
Fig. 21 View Fig
Heliophanus improcerus Wesołowska, 1986: 35 View in CoL , figs 376–383.
Material examined
UGANDA • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Lake Nabagabo ; 0°22′ S, 31°54′ E; sweep from lake-side vegetation; 13 Mar. 1966; D. Penney leg.; NHM GoogleMaps • 1 ♂; Bukakata ; 0°18′ S, 32°02′ E; 11 Apr. 1995; D. Penney leg.; MRAC 219 503 GoogleMaps • 2 ♀♀; 10 km W of Fort Portal Nkuruba Lake Nature Reserve ; 0°31′ N, 30°18′ E; 13 Mar. 2009; Guinovsky leg.; MRAC 242 643 GoogleMaps • 1 ♀; Entebbe , Botanical Gardens; Apr. 2001; FSCA • 1 ♂; same locality as for preceding; long grass; 17 May 1991; A. Russell-Smith leg.; MRAC 236 123 .
Redescription
Male
General appearance as in Fig. 21A. View Fig
MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 1.3–1.4, width 1.1, height 0.4. Eye field length 0.6, anterior width 0.8, posterior width 0.9. Abdomen length 1.3, width 1.0.
CARAPACE. Brown with black eye field. White patches behind posterior lateral eyes. Thin lines along lateral edges of carapace formed by white hairs. Mouthparts and sternum dark brown.
ABDOMEN. Dark brown, clothed in short blackish hairs, with pair of diagonal white spots on posterior half of abdomen. Venter dark, spinnerets brown.
LEGS. First pair brown, legs II–IV yellow with brown femora.
PALPS. Brown. Palpal structure as in in Fig. 21B View Fig , embolus short and massive, tibial apophysis small, corresponding with large retrolateral cymbial tutaculum.
Female
Slightly larger than male, general appearance as in Fig. 21C View Fig . Colouration as in male.
MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 1.6–1.9, width 1.1–1.2, height 0.4. Eye field length 0.7, anterior width 0.9, posterior width 1.0. Abdomen length 2.5–2.7, width 1.5.
EPIGYNE. As in Fig. 21D–E View Fig , elliptic, short and wide, extremely small, with posterior depression. Copulatory openings placed laterally, copulatory ducts primarily directed backwards, in further part approach center of epigyne, spermathecae bean-shaped with thin long appendix ( Fig. 21F View Fig ).
Distribution
Previously known only from Congo, this is the first record from Uganda.
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Heliophanus improcerus Wesołowska, 1986
Wiśniewski, Konrad & Wesołowska, Wanda 2024 |
Heliophanus improcerus Wesołowska, 1986: 35
Wesolowska W. 1986: 35 |