Thyenula magna, Wesolowska & Haddad, 2009

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 : 92

Thyenula magna sp. n.

Figs 200–202, 237

Etymology: From Latin magna (big); the name refers to the size of the species, largest in the genus.

Diagnosis: A distinctive species, larger than congeners. Male with large chelicerae and a narrow palpal cymbium. Female unknown.

Description:

Male.

Measurements: Carapace length 4.1, width 3.5, height 1.3. Abdomen length 4.2, width 3.0. Eye field length 2.0, anterior and posterior width 2.6.

General appearance in Fig. 237; medium-sized spiders, but clearly larger than other species in the genus. Carapace oval, dark brown, slightly lighter in vicinity of fovea, almost black along lateral margins; eye field black; two narrow parallel light lines below anterior lateral eyes, on ‘cheeks’; clypeus low, dark. Chelicera dark brown, large, with bicuspid tooth on promargin and single tooth on retromarginal edge ( Fig. 200); some very small protuberances on dorsal surface of chelicerae in vicinity of tooth; labium and endites brown with whitish tips; sternum dark.Abdomen dark, almost black, with broad longitudinal serrate yellowish streak medially; venter dark; short brown hairs scattered on carapace and abdomen; spinnerets yellowish grey. Legs brown, first pair stouter than rest, ventral surface of patella and tibia of first leg with dense long dark hairs and three pairs of stout spines on tibia and two pairs on metatarsus ventrally. Pedipalps relatively small, dark; palpal femur long; cymbium very narrow, tegulum short, without posterior lobe, embolus with rather close basal circle ( Figs 201, 202).

Holotype: ơ Between Main Camp and Vulture Restaurant, 26 ° 54.276'S: 32 ° 18.664'E, broadleaf woodland, leaf litter, 2.xii.2000 ( NCA 2009 /675).

Habitat and biology: This species is known only from the holotype specimen, collected from leaf litter in BW .