Yaginumaella Prószyński, 1979

Li, Song-Lin, Liu, Ping & Peng, Xian-Jin, 2024, Three new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Hunan, China, ZooKeys 1204, pp. 301-312 : 301-312

Genus Yaginumaella Prószyński, 1979

Type species.

Yaginumaella striatipes Grube, 1861 .

Remarks.

The genus Yaginumaella is currently placed in the Plexippini tribe according to molecular analysis, together with the genus Ptocasius ( Maddison 2015) . Yaginumaella closely resembles Ptocasius ( Logunov and Jäger 2015) , especially in females ( Li et al. 2018). However, there are clear differences in the type species of Yaginumaella and Ptocasius ( Prószyński 2017) . Patoleta et al. (2020), transferred 37 species of Yaginumaella to the genus Ptocasius only based on the similarity of genitalic structures. But, based on the characteristics shown in literature illustrations of species, these two genera can be distinguished by the following characters: 1) carapace with light longitudinal stripes in Yaginumaella , while usually with transverse stripes in Ptocasius ; and 2) palpal bulb enlarged, with tegular lobe in Yaginumaella , while oblate, without tegular lobe in Ptocasius ( Li et al. 2018) . Therefore, according to the above characteristics, Y. curvata sp. nov. is described as a member of the genus Yaginumaella . In addition, based on the close collecting locations and genital characteristics of males and females, we tentatively identify them as the same species.