Simonurius Galiano, 1988

Marta, Kimberly S., Bustamante, Abel A., Ruiz, Gustavo R. S., Teixeira, Renato A., Hagopián, Damián, Brescovit, Antonio D., Valiati, Victor Hugo & Rodrigues, Everton N. L., 2022, A new huriine genus and notes on morphological characters (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae), Zootaxa 5124 (4), pp. 431-457 : 448

Simonurius Galiano, 1988

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Fig. 77

Type species. Akela gladifera Simon, 1901 = Simonurius gladifer (Simon, 1901) , by original designation.

Revised diagnosis. Among huriines, males of Simonurius have the shortest embolus; in addition, Simonurius males differ from all other huriines by having a prolateral tegular apophysis (see Galiano 1988: figs 28, 34). Females differ from those of the remaining huriine genera by having large primary spermathecae, long and thin secondary spermathecae and short copulatory ducts ( Figs 57 – 58 ).

Note. In the original description, Galiano (1988: 296) compared Simonurius with Akela Peckham & Peckham, 1896 (Aellurillini: Freyina) and referred to Simonurius as the only genus of huriines with a median apophysis. Since the jumping-spiders of the subfamily Salticinae do not have true median apophyses ( Ramírez 2014; Maddison 2015), the novel tegular apophysis of Simonurius needs further study in future works, in order to determine its origin and function.

Distribution. Peru [Cusco ( Galiano 1985)], Venezuela [Araguá, Distrito Federal ( Galiano 1988; Ruiz & Brescovit 2005; Galvis & Martínez 2016)] and Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul) ( Fig. 77 ).

Natural history. Species occur between 24 and 3000 m a. s. l.

Figures

FIGURES 77–78. Regionalization in Neotropical view (Morrone 2014) and distributional records for huriine jumping spiders (records of Urupuyu not included). 77 Neotropical, South America, Brazilian subregion Chacoan subregion, South America Transition Zone, Andean Region. 78 Southern of South America, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina focusing on the distribution of Guriurius.

FIGURES 49–58. Simonurius gladifer. Habitus male (MCTP 31078): 49 dorsal view, white arrow: chevrons coloration pattern; 50 ventral view; 51 lateral view; 52 face, frontal view; Habitus female (MCTP 31069): 53 dorsal view, white arrow: chevrons coloration pattern; 54 ventral view; 55 lateral view; 56 face, frontal view, scale bars: 1 mm. Epigyne female (MCTP 31082): 57 ventral view; 58 dorsal view, white arrow: S2* is broken but illustrated and S1 angular axis in anterior region, scale bars: 0.10 mm.