Asemonea amatola, Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013

Wesołowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2013, New data on the jumping spiders of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae), African Invertebrates 54 (1), pp. 177-177 : 182-184

Asemonea amatola sp. n.

Figs 2, 30, 31

Etymology: A noun in apposition, referring to the mountain range in which the type locality is found.

Diagnosis: The female has a distinctive epigynal structure, which is short and broad, with fissured gonopores. Male unknown.

Description:

Female.

Measurements. Cephalothorax: length 2.0, width 1.6. Abdomen: length 2.4, width 1.5. Eye field: length 0.7.

General appearance as in Fig. 2. Small, pale spiders. Carapace pear-shaped, eyes typical for Lyssomaninae , in four rows, situated on high tubercles, posterior median eyes relatively large. Carapace white, with delicate traces of two dark bands on thoracic part; eyes with black rings (except anterior medians). Fovea distinct. Chelicerae with three small teeth on promargin and four on retromargin. Mouthparts and sternum whitish. Abdomen elongate, pale, with traces of dark lateral streaks anteriorly and five small blackish spots in posterior half. Venter pale. Spinnerets white. Delicate short light hairs covering entire body. Legs thin, white. First tibiae with single prolateral spine, two retrolateral and four pairs of ventral spines; metatarsi with three pairs on ventral surface. Pedipalp with six spines (five below and one above). Epigyne large, very broad, blackish, with two large shallow depressions ( Fig. 30). Copulatory openings fissured, their surroundings strongly sclerotized ( Fig. 31).

Holotype: ♀ SOUTH AFRICA: Eastern Cape: Amatola Mtns, Hogsback, Never Daunted Guest House , 32°35.6'S 26°56.8'E, canopy fogging, mixed garden shrubs, 10.iv.2010, C. Haddad (NCA, 2012/1106).

Distribution: Known only from the type locality ( Fig. 35).

Habitat and biology: The species was collected from the canopy of mixed broadleaf trees in a garden.