Menemerus zimbabwensis Wesolowska, 1999

Wesolowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2009, Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa, African Invertebrates 50 (1), pp. 13-103 : 55-56

Menemerus zimbabwensis Wesolowska, 1999

Figs 99, 100, 219

Menemerus zimbabwensis: Wesolowska 1999 b: 342 , figs 300, 301; 2007: 524, figs 22–29.

See Wesolowska (2007) for description of both sexes.

Redescription:

Female.

Measurements: Carapace length 2.9, width 2.2, height 0.6. Abdomen length 3.6, width 2.3. Eye field length 1.2, anterior and posterior width 1.6.

General appearance in Fig. 219; flattened, hairy spider. Carapace dark brown with black eye field, clothed densely in light grey hairs, with brown bristles near eyes; light streaks composed of whitish hairs along lateral margins of carapace; clypeus covered with white hairs. Sternum and mouthparts brown, endites with yellow inner margins. Abdomen flat, elongated, brown, covered with greyish hairs, with ill-defined lighter streak medially; sides of abdomen light, venter dark tinged; spinnerets brownish. Legs dark orange, marked with dark brown spots; leg hairs brown and grey. Pedipalps orange. Epigyne oval, slightly elevated medially, with narrow notch in posterior edge and two large depressions partially plugged with waxy secretion; epigynal pockets widely spaced ( Fig. 99); copulatory openings hidden in very large and deep, strongly sclerotised cups, seminal ducts short, receptacles spherical ( Fig. 100).

Material examined: 1^Western shore of Nyamiti Pan, 26 ° 53.767'S: 32 ° 16.557'E, A. xanthophloea bark, 6.ii.2005 ( NCA 2008 /600) .

Distribution: Species known from South Africa and Zimbabwe.