Vicirionessa fuscimana (Simon, 1903) Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022

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 : 133-135

Vicirionessa fuscimana (Simon, 1903) gen. et comb. nov.

Fig. 79

Viciria fuscimana Simon, 1903b: 118 .

Brancus lacrimosus Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012: 738 , figs 25–27, 118. Syn. nov.

Viciria fuscimana – Clark 1974: 23, figs 35–39. — Wanless & Clark 1975: 281, figs 15–16.

Brancus fuscimanus – Wesołowska & Russell-Smith 2011: 566, figs 43–44, 220.

Diagnosis

The male palp of this species is similar to that in Vicirionessa niveimana and Vicirionessa peckhamorum . The male of V. niveimana is easily recognized by the first and second pair of legs, bearing very dense and long hairs. The male of V. peckhamorum differs in having a slightly shorter tibial apophysis of the palp and the female has a different epigyne (compare Fig. 79F with Wesołowska & Edwards 2012: fig. 38).

Material examined

IVORY COAST • 1 ♀; Lamto , station; 8 Sep. 1975; MNHN • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; Aug. 1974; MNHN • 1♂; same collection data as for preceding; 15 Aug. 1975; “savane, secouge des branches”; MNHN • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 26 Aug. 1975; “savane non-brulée, sur branches”; MNHN • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 25 Aug. 1975; “marigot salé, branches en sous bois”; MNHN • 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 12 Nov. 1975; “bosquet maricageux”; MNHN • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 21 Aug. 1975; “forêt galerie, sous bois, sur branches”; MNHN • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding, Bandama Forest ; 11 Aug. 1975; “sur un tronc”; MNHN • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 27 Aug. 1974; “sur branches”; MNHN • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 1 Sep. 1975; MNHN • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 28 Nov. 1975; MNHN • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 3–4 Dec. 1975; MNHN • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 29 Sep. 1975; “sur branches hautes (+2.0m)”; MNHN • 1 ♂; Kotiessou ; 6°08′ N, 5°04′ W; 19 Aug. 1975; “forêt degradée”; MNHN • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; surroundings of Man ; 7°24′ N, 7°33′ W; 10 Nov. 1975; “forêt brousse, sur branches”; MNHN .

Redescription

Male

MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 2.9, width 2.8, height 1.3. Eye field length 1.3, anterior width 2.2, posterior width 2.0. Abdomen length 4.5, width 1.7. General appearance as in Fig. 79A . Body slender.

CARAPACE. Rounded, moderately high, brown, black near eyes. Along sides of carapace light strip formed by white hairs, many white hairs on eye field. Anterior eyes encircled by white scales, clypeus with mat of white hairs. Chelicerae large, brown, unidentate, their teeth very small. Labium and sternum dark brown, endites with whitish tips.

ABDOMEN. Elongated, narrow, brownish olive, some delicate recumbent colourless hairs on its dorsum, venter dark. Spinnerets brownish.

LEGS. Long (especially tibiae and metatarsi), brown but coxae and trochanters yellow. Legs I and II with long dense blackish hairs on ventral surface of their patellae, tibiae and metatarsi. Leg hairs long, brown, spines brown.

PEDIPALPS. Brown, their structure as in Fig. 79B–E . Tibial apophysis with shallow notch on the tip ( Fig. 79E ).

Female

See Wesołowska & Russell-Smith (2011). Epigyne as in Fig. 79F .

Biology

All but two specimens were collected from forest habitats in Lamto.

Distribution

Known from Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Cameroon.

Figures

Fig. 79. Vicirionessa fuscimana (Simon, 1903) gen. et comb. nov., ♂♀ (MNHN). A. Habitus of male, dorsal view. B, D. Palpal organ, ventral view. C. Palpal organ, ventrolateral view. E. Palpal organ, lateral view. F. Epigyne.