Genus Saraina Wanless & Clark, 1975

Type species: Saraina rubrofasciata Wanless & Clark, 1975

Diagnosis. This genus can be recognized by the shape of the copulatory organs: a counterclockwise tegulum and embolus originating on the prolateral side of tegulum (Figs 2, 9, 19, and fig. 5 G in Szűts and Scharff 2005) in males, and an epigyne with two lateral narrow openings, two bent sclerotized structures (Figs 16, 24, 25) and a long, coiled insemination duct (Figs 17, 26) in females.

Saraina is a fissidentate genus. The structure of the male copulatory organs is unique: the tibia has three apophyses – ventral, medial and dorsal (Fig. 1). The whip-liked embolus is long and thin, originating from the prolateral side, and directed inwards of the cymbium (Szűts and Scharff 2005). The relationships of this genus to other salticid genera are unclear (see Wanless and Clark 1975; Dippenaar-Schoeman and Jocqué 1997). The cheliceral base in both sexes and the female copulatory organs in Saraina resemble those of some Euophryinae (see also Wanless and Clark 1975, pp. 288-289), while the male copulatory organs are more similar to those of some Thiodininae .