Nimbarus pratensis, Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002

Rollard, Christine & Wesołowska, Wanda, 2002, Jumping spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains in Guinea, Zoosystema 24 (2), pp. 283-307 : 301-303

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5394616
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0390E567-FFD6-890D-FCFE-FB049B28F970
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Nimbarus pratensis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Nimbarus pratensis View in CoL n. sp.

( Fig. 14 View FIG )

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: Mountain Tô , 1600- 1650 m a.s.l., meadow, 12-13.XII.1951, leg. M. Lamotte & R. Roy,; paratypes: together with holotype, 3 (two without abdomen). — Same locality, 20-23.IX.1951, leg. M. Lamotte & R. Roy, 1.

ETYMOLOGY. — The specific name is Latin for “meadow”, and refers to the habitat of this species.

DIAGNOSIS. — This species is characterised by details of the pedipalp structure; the presence of two long processes on the bulbus tip, the form of the dorsal tib-

A B

ial apophysis and the rolled up retrolateral cymbial edge.

DESCRIPTION

Male. Measurements: carapace length 1.7-2.0, width 1.2-1.5, height 0.8-0.9. Abdomen length 1.6-1.9, width 1.1-1.4. Eye field length 0.8- 0.9, anterior and posterior width 1.2-1.3. Leg spination: I Fm d 1-1-1, Tb v 2-2-2ap, Mt v 2- 2ap; II Fm d 1-1-1, Tb d 1-1, pl 1ap, v 1-1-1, Mt pl and v 1-1ap, rl 1ap; III Fm d 1-1-1, pl 1, Tb pl and rl 1-1, v 1-1ap, Mt d 2ap, pl and rl 1-1-1ap, v 2ap; IV Fm d 1-1, pl 0-1, Pt pl 1, Tb pl and rl and v 1-1, Mt d 2ap, pl and rl 1-1- 1ap, v 2ap. General appearance as in Fig. 14A View FIG . Carapace oval, very high. Coloration of carapace dark brown to blackish, in some specimens traces of light line along its middle, vicinity of eyes black. Very short prostrate hairs on carapace, their coloration brownish and grey, only near eyes long brown bristles. Clypeus clothed in white hairs. Chelicerae big, with stumpy fang, two small teeth on promarginal edge and huge tooth on retromarginal one ( Fig. 14B View FIG ). Maxillae light brown, labium and sternum darker. Abdomen oval, dark brown, venter dark too. Some long brown hairs at anterior abdominal margins. Spinnerets brown. Legs dark brown, their hairs delicate, brown and greyish. Spines long. Pedipalps small, brown, with long hairs. Cymbium narrow, its retrolateral edge rolled up ( Fig. 14C, D View FIG ). Bulbus irregularly shaped, with long apical lobe and very thin horizontal process at embolus base ( Fig. 14C, E View FIG ). Embolus at tip of bulbus, long and thin, forming large loop. Embolus base wide, membranous ( Fig. 14D View FIG ). Palpal tibia short, with two apophyses; retrolateral of them rather small, almost horizontal; dorsal one thin, quite flat and very long ( Fig. 14C, D View FIG ). Tuft of long bristles near dorsal tibial apophysis.