Heliophanus improcerus Wesołowska, 1986

Wiśniewski, Konrad & Wesołowska, Wanda, 2024, Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda - revised list, new species and distributional data, European Journal of Taxonomy 952, pp. 1-171 : 35-36

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:00BEAF45-3564-4079-BB79-504FF82966C6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13752417

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039D879D-FF8D-FFEB-3318-5F79FBBDFE7A

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Heliophanus improcerus Wesołowska, 1986
status

 

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.

FSCA

USA, Florida, Gainesville, Division of Plant Industry, Florida State Collection of Arthropods

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Heliophanus

Loc

Heliophanus improcerus Wesołowska, 1986

Wiśniewski, Konrad & Wesołowska, Wanda 2024
2024
Loc

Heliophanus improcerus Wesołowska, 1986: 35

Wesolowska W. 1986: 35
1986
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