Scoturius Simon, 1901

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 : 447

Scoturius Simon, 1901

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Fig. 77

Type species. Scoturius tigris Simon, 1901 , by original designation.

Revised diagnosis. Galiano (1988) proposed that Scoturius differs from other huriine genera in having three retrolateral tibial apophysis. However, after comparisons of male palp across the tribe, we proposed a new interpretation, meaning that the two more dorsal branches may be developments of two RTA lobes (see discussion below). Males of Scoturius resemble those of Urupuyu Ruiz & Maddison, 2015 by having the RTA with two lobes. However, males of Scoturius differ from those of Urupuyu by the two lobes of RTA finger-shaped and independent (lobes much shorter in Urupuyu ).

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.