Habrocestoides dactyloides Xie, Peng & Kim, 1993

Peng Xian-jin & Xie Li-ping, 1995, Spiders of the genus Habrocestoides from China (Araneae: Salticidae), Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10, pp. 57-64 : 57

Habrocestoides dactyloides Xie, Peng & Kim, 1993 (Figs. 1-7)

Habrocestoides dactyloides Xie et al., 1993: 23 , figs. 1-4 (♂).

Material: Male holotype, Mt. Huping, Shimen , Hunan, 23 October 1975, collected by a student (name not recorded) ; 1 ♀, Mt. Huang, Anhui , 23 October 1974 ; 1 ♀ 2♂, Daoxian , Hunan, 25 April 1991, leg. Gong Lian-su ; 1♀, Mt. Yuelu, Changsha , Hunan, August 1986, leg. Xiao Xiao-qin ; 1 ♀ 1♂ ‘, Daoxian , Hunan, 23 September 1987, leg. Gong Lian-su ; 2♀ 6♂ ‘, Daoxian , Hunan, 7 July 1986, leg. Gong Lian-su .

Diagnosis: The male of this species resembles H. sinensis Proszynski, 1992 (Prószynski, 1992a: 94, figs. 16-21), but differs from the latter by: (1) embolus falcate, bent into S-shape, that of sinensis daggershaped, slightly bent; (2) tibial apophysis more slender. The female resembles Habrocestum kweilinensis Prószyñski, 1992 (Prószyúski, 1992 a: 96, figs. 33, 34), but the epigyne of the latter lacks the bell-shaped hood found in H. dactyloides ; the internal structure of the epigyne is also different.

Male holotype." TL 2.9, CL 1.55, CW 1.3, AEW 1.15, PEW 1.1, EFL 0.6, AL 1.4, AW 1.1. Carapace reddish brown, with dense white hairs; eyes I nearly straight, eye field darker, posterior margin of eyes I and lateral margins of eye field covered with brown setae. Chelicerae reddish brown, 2 promarginal teeth, 1 retromarginal. Endites, labium and sternum yellowish brown, short and slender, each segment of legs with black-brown annuli on distal and basal ends except leg I. Abdomen oval, dorsum yellowish brown with dark brown marks (Fig. 1); ventrally yellow. Palpal organ (Figs. 2-4): embolus the longest among the genus and bent into S-shape; tibial apophysis also longest of genus.

Female: TL 3.0-4.0. Specimen of TL 3.3 measured: CLI.6, CWI. 3, AEWI. 1, PEWI.05, EFLO.75, AL 1.7, AW 1.2. Carapace dark brown, with black margins, covered by dense white hairs and sparse long brown hairs; anterior four eyes equidistant, diameter of AME about twice that of ALE, PME at midpoint

between ALE and PLE, lateral margins of eye field black. Sternum oval, yellowish brown, covered with brown hairs. Clypeus low, height less than one-fourth diameter of AME. Chelicerae brown, 2 promarginal teeth, l retromarginal. Endites and labium yellow, distal end covered with pale hairs. Legs yellowish brown, with dark annuli and short brown hairs, spines sparse. Formula: 4, 3, l, 2. Measurements: