Ohilimia laensis, Gardzińska, Joanna & Patoleta, Barbara, 2010

Gardzińska, Joanna & Patoleta, Barbara, 2010, A new species of Ohilimia Strand, 1911 from New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae), Genus 21, pp. 625-629 : 626-629

Ohilimia laensis new species

(Figs 1-7)

etymology

The specific name is derived from the type locality: Lae in New Guinea.

diagnoSiS

O. laensis may be distinguished from the females of other species of Ohilimia by the details of the epigyne structure: spermathecae with additional small chambers, accessory glands of insemination ducts small and rather indistinct, wing-shaped antero-lateral margins enlarged. Each femur of first pair legs with distinctive, sclerotized retroventral edge.

deScriPtion

Female holotype (Figs 1-7). Cephalothorax rounded, dark brown, sparsely covered with fine, whitish hairs. Ocular area almost black with pale, scale-like hairs. Clypeus low, dark brown, covered with few, moderately long whitish hairs. Chelicerae brown, maxillae and labium of similar colour, chewing margins yellow. Sternum scutiform, brown. Abdomen with orange patch in anterior part and pattern of light spots and dots on grey background; fine, whitish hairs form three, not quite distinctive transverse stripes. Venter paler than dorsal surface, with oblong rows of small brownish-grey spots. Spinnerets grey. Epigyne as in Figs 6-7. Legs I brown, with yellow tarsi, others yellow-brown. Tibiae I with dorso-lateral patch of fine, whitish hairs, ventrally 8 pairs of strong spines and dense fringe of flattened brown setae. Femora I with clearly marked retroventral edge (see arrow in Fig. 2). Metatarsi I with 3 pairs of long, ventral spines. Dimensions: CL 2.55; CW 2.08; CH 1.25; AEW 1.70; PEW 1.85; EFL 1.45; AL 3.20; AW 1.68; L 1 10.15 (0.95+1.05+2.30+1.15+2.30+1.80+0.70).

Male unknown.

diStriBution

Known only from type locality: Lae in New Guinea.

tyPe material

Holotype: female ( AMNH, holotype), Papua New Guinea (Morobe Province): Lae , September 1949, coll. n. l. h. krauss .