Yamangalea, Maddison, Wayne P., 2009

Maddison, Wayne P., 2009, New cocalodine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Cocalodinae), Zootaxa 2021, pp. 1-22 : 7-8

Genus Yamangalea new genus

Type species: Yamangalea frewana Maddison , new species.

Etymology. The name is based on "yamangelé", the word for "spider" in the language of the Ipili people, on whose land I first collected these spiders. Because the "g" of "yamangelé" is pronounced hard as in "good", when Latinized the first "e" was changed to an "a" to avoid mispronunciation. The name is to be treated as feminine.

Diagnosis. Except for the large PME and stereotypical spartaeine-like gait, Yamangalea could be mistaken while alive for a euophryine or other typical salticoid. Its unremarkable form is distinguished from other cocalodines by what it lacks: no elongate chelicerae or cheliceral horn, no eye tubercles, and no elongate body. As in Allococalodes , the conductor is membranous. Most distinctive is the embolus which is mostly hidden against the inner wall of the cymbium.