Anelosimus sallee Agnarsson & Kuntner, 2005

Agnarsson, Ingi, Jencik, Brian B., Veve, Giselle M., Hanitriniaina, Sahondra, Agostini, Diego, Goh, Seok Ping, Pruitt, Jonathan & Kuntner, Matjaz, 2015, Systematics of the Madagascar Anelosimus spiders: remarkable local richness and endemism, and dual colonization from the Americas, ZooKeys 509, pp. 13-52 : 25

Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Theridiidae

Anelosimus sallee Agnarsson & Kuntner, 2005 Fig. 6

Notes.

The species is rediagnosed and genitalia re-illustrated.

Type material.

Holotype male, paratype female from Périnet Special Reserve (P.N. Andasibe Mantadia), Toamasina Province, Madagascar, (18.935°S, 48.418°E), 24.xii.1999 (M.E. Irwin et al.), in CAS, examined.

Other material.

Additional specimens from same locality, 3-20.iv.2008 and 12-28.xi.2008, col. Agnarsson, Kuntner, and Hanitriniaina.

Diagnosis.

Males are readily diagnosed from all species other than Anelosimus nazariani by the elongate upper branch of the TTA (Fig. 6B) and from Anelosimus nazariani by the greater curvature of this branch. Females can be diagnosed by the shape of the septum being almost as high as wide (Fig. 5C). Anelosimus sallee can be diagnosed from other Madagascan Anelosimus on the basis of the following unique mtDNA nucleotide substitutions at the following standard DNA barcode alignment positions: G (190), C (284), C (401), G (403), A (421), G (433), A (482), A (718). It can also be readily diagnosed from most other Anelosimus based the following partially shared nucleotide substitutions, and all other species by their unique combination: G (211, except some Anelosimus may ), G (313, except Anelosimus nazariani and some Anelosimus huxleyi sp. n.), T (139, except Anelosimus huxleyi sp. n.), T (352, except Anelosimus may and Anelosimus darwini sp. n.), G (541, except Anelosimus salut and some Anelosimus wallacei sp. n.), G (550, except rarely Anelosimus nazariani ), T (838, except Anelosimus huxleyi sp. n.), G (934, except some Anelosimus nazariani ), G (973, except Anelosimus may ).

Distribution.

Only known from type locality.

Natural history.

This species is rare at the type locality, and too few colonies have been sampled to comment on its natural history, though it is expected to be subsocial like related species.