Goleba puella (Simon, 1885)
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7911165 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F1803A-FFBA-FFC0-75D8-09F4CD7C36E7 |
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Felipe |
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Goleba puella (Simon, 1885) |
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Goleba puella (Simon, 1885) View in CoL
Figs 53–61
Asamonea puella: Simon 1885: 27 ; Roewer 1965: 4, figs 5a–c.
Asemonea puella: Clark 1974: 12 , figs 2, 3.
Goleba puella: Wanless 1980: 246 View in CoL , figs 22a–e, 23a–c, 29.
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Measurements (male/female): Carapace length 2.5/2.5, width 1.9/1.9, height 0.8/0.7. Abdomen length 3.2/4.5, width 1.3/2.2. Eye field length 0.8/0.8, anterior width 1.3/1.2, posterior width 0.9/1.0.
Male.
General appearance as in Fig. 53. Carapace pear-shaped, yellowish (probably green in live specimens), with black rings surrounding eyes (except anterior medians), and traces of parallel brownish stripes on the thoracic part; eyes placed in four rows, posterior median eyes relatively large (as in other Lyssomaninae spiders), all eyes on high tubercles; fovea sulciform; clypeus medium high, with band composed of reddish hairs ( Fig. 54), band extending to lateral margins of carapace. Mouthparts and sternum yellow. Chelicerae pluridentate, four teeth on promargin and five on retromargin, dorsal surface of chelicerae with transverse brown band ( Fig. 54). Abdomen narrower than carapace, elongate, yellow, with poorly defined pattern formed by reddish hairs; venter pale; spinnerets yellow. Legs slender, long, especially long metatarsi; legs yellowish, only femora with brown stripes on prolateral surfaces; spines numerous, robust, long. Pedipalps pale; palpal femur with big ventral tubercle ( Fig. 59); cymbium narrow terminally ( Fig. 58); tibia with ventral and retrolateral apophyses, the latter one hooked ( Figs 57, 58); tegulum irregular, with median tegular apophysis and two small lobes ( Fig. 56); spermophore meandering, embolus stout ( Figs 55, 56).
Female.
Slightly larger than male, abdomen not as slender; whole body yellowish white, only eye rings blackish. Epigyne rounded, shown in Fig. 60; internal structure as in Fig. 61; accessory glands very long, tubule-like.
Material examined: 1ơ 1^Main Camp, 26 ° 54.581'S: 32 ° 18.798'E, broadleaf woodland, beats, short bushes, 6.vii.2000 ( NMBA 11597 View Materials ); 1^Near pump, Pongola R GoogleMaps . floodplain, 26 ° 54.323'S: 32 ° 19.435'E, riverine forest, beating foliage, 27.vi.2006 ( NCA 2006 /1214); 1ơ 1^26 ° 51.908'S: 32 ° 14.458'E, subtropical bush, Mahemane thicket, beats, foliage, 2.xii.2000 ( NCA 2008 /2038) GoogleMaps .
Distribution: Species hitherto known from Angola, Congo, Ghana and Kenya; recorded for the first time from South Africa.
Habitat and biology: This pale green species was occasionally collected from foliage of woody plants in BW, RF and ST.
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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile |
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Goleba puella (Simon, 1885)
Wesolowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R. 2009 |
Asemonea puella:
CLARK, D. J. 1974: 12 |
Asamonea puella:
ROEWER, C. F. 1965: 4 |