Asemonea clara Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013

Haddad, Charles Richard, Wiśniewski, Konrad & Wesołowska, Wanda, 2024, The jumping spiders of Mozambique (Araneae: Salticidae), Zootaxa 5560 (1), pp. 1-92 : 10-13

Asemonea clara Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013

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Asemonea clara Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013: 184 , figs 32–33 (♀).

Material examined. MOZAMBIQUE: Gaza: Xai-Xai, Montego’s Camp , 25°03.659’S, 33°40.633’E, beating shrubs, dune forest, 2.XII.2007, leg. C. Haddad, 1♂ ( NCA 2020 /183) . Maputo: near Marracuene, Marracuene Lodge , 25°46.379’S, 32°41.046’E, riverine forest, beating shrubs, 1.XII.2007, leg. R. Lyle & R. Fourie, 2♂ 6♀ ( NCA 2020 /192) .

Diagnosis. The male of this species may be recognized by its almost black colouration. Its palpal organ is similar to that of Asemonea amatola Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 , but differs by the shape of the palpal apophyses, particularly by the furcated dorsal tibial apophysis (vs single in A. amatola ) (compare Fig. 5B, C with figs 22–25 in Wesołowska & Haddad 2018). The female can be recognized by the epigyne with a broad transverse median furrow, large pockets, and C-shaped copulatory ducts ( Fig. 6B, C ).

Description. Male: Measurements: Cephalothorax: length 1.6–1.8, width 1.3–1.4, height 0.8. Eye field: length 0.5–0.6, anterior width 1.0, posterior width 0.8. Abdomen: length 1.8–2.0, width 0.8–0.9. General appearance as in Fig. 4A . Carapace pear-shaped, low, eyes in four rows, situated on high tubercles, posterior median eyes relatively large. Carapace blackish, in some specimens with triangular creamy patch on thoracic part. Eye field dirty yellow, eyes surrounded by black rings, except anterior medians. Some white hairs and long brown bristles near eyes. Clypeus high, black. Dorsal surfaces of chelicerae brown. Mouthparts, sternum and coxae creamy. Abdomen narrow, dorsal and ventral surfaces black, in lighter specimen dorsum dark grey with five round black patches in posterior half. Spinnerets greyish. Legs long (especially femora) and thin, generally dark, femora black, sometimes with partially yellowish dorsal surface, patellae and tibiae blackish, metatarsi and tarsi yellow with black lines along sides. Legs hairy, hairs and spines long. Palp light brown; femur with row of dense long hairs ventrally ( Fig. 4B ) and long retrolateral apophysis at distal end ( Figs 4C , 5D ), tibia with three apophyses, dorsal-most furcated ( Figs 4B–D , 5A–D ).

Female: For description of female see Wesołowska & Haddad (2013). General appearance in Fig. 6A . Epigyne in Fig. 6B, C , its internal structure as in Fig. 6D .

Distribution. Previously known from South Africa; recorded from Mozambique for the first time here.

Remarks. The male of the species is described here for the first time.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Asemonea clara Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013, male.A. General appearance, dorsal view; B. Palpal organ, prolateral view; C. Same, ventroretrolateral view; D. Same, dorsal view.

FIGURE 5. Asemonea clara Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013, male. A. Palpal organ, ventral view; B. Same, prolateral view; C. Same, dorsal view; D. Same, retrolateral view.

FIGURE 6. Asemonea clara Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013, female. A. General appearance, dorsal view; B, C. Epigyne; D. Internal structure of epigyne.