Heliophanus claviger Simon, 1901

Wesolowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2009, Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa, African Invertebrates 50 (1), pp. 13-103 : 41-42

Heliophanus claviger Simon, 1901

Figs 68–72

Heliophanus claviger: Simon 1901 a: 56 , fig. 9; Wesolowska 1986: 15, figs 54–63.

See Wesolowska (1986) for description of both sexes.

Redescription:

Male.

Measurements: Carapace length 2.3, width 1.8, height 0.8. Abdomen length 2.4, width 1.7. Eye field length 0.8, anterior width 1.3, posterior width 1.5.

General appearance in Fig. 68. Carapace dark brown, eye field black with metallic lustre, reticulate-punctured; white hairs form patch between anterior median eyes and two light streaks extending from anterior lateral eyes to thoracic part of carapace ( Fig. 68); endites and labium brown with light tips, chelicerae and sternum dark brown. Abdomen oval, dark brown, with white band along anterior abdominal edge, extending to sides, and two pairs of rounded spots, one of them at midpoint and second at spinnerets ( Fig. 68); venter pale yellow; spinnerets dark. Legs yellow with brown rings; pedipalps brown, with white scales on tibia dorsally and on cymbium; tegulum triangular, embolus short ( Fig. 69); two tibial apophyses ( Figs 69–71); palpal femur with small process ventrally ( Fig. 72).

Material examined: 1ơ Main Camp, 26 ° 54.581'S: 32 ° 18.798'E, broadleaf woodland, beats, foliage, 6.vii.2000 ( NCA 2008 /2040) .

Distribution: Known only from South Africa.

Habitat and biology: This rare and distinctive species was collected from foliage of short shrubs in BW. Several immature specimens were collected from A. xanthophloea bark around Hotwe, Nyamiti and Shokwe Pans, and along the Pongola River floodplain .