Heliophanus butemboensis Wesołowska, 1986

Wesołowska, Wanda & Russell-Smith, Anthony, 2022, Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J. - C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 841 (1), pp. 1-143 : 26-27

Heliophanus butemboensis Wesołowska, 1986

Fig. 17

Heliophanus butemboensis Wesołowska, 1986: 24 , figs 199–200.

Material examined

IVORY COAST • 1 ♀; 10 km S of Odienné ; 9°30′ N, 7°33′ W; 19 Oct. 1975; “savane arbustive, au sol”; MNHN .

Redescription

Male

Unknown.

Female

MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 1.2, width 0.8, height 0.6. Eye field length 0.6, anterior width 0.8, posterior width 0.9. Abdomen length 1.5, width 0.8.

CARAPACE. High, dark brown, clothed in long whitish hairs. Mouthparts and sternum brown. ABDOMEN. Oval, greyish brown with traces of lighter chevrons posteriorly, covered with dense brownish hairs. Venter grey. Spinnerets yellowish.

LEGS.Yellow.

EPIGYNE. Triangular with an oval depression in posterior part and a pair of pockets anteriorly ( Fig. 17A ). Internal structures simple ( Fig. 17B–C ), copulatory openings placed posterolaterally in wide cavity, seminal ducts and spermathecae directed anteriorly.

Distribution

Hitherto this species was known from Rwanda and Congo.

Figures

Fig. 17. Heliophanus butemboensis Wesołowska, 1986, ♀ (MNHN). A. Epigyne.B–C. Internal structure of epigyne.