Rhyphelia barbado, Nobre & Ruiz, 2024

Nobre, Welington B. & Ruiz, Gustavo R. S., 2024, On the boundary of the jumping spider genus Rhyphelia Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini), with description of ten new species, Zootaxa 5418 (5), pp. 471-500 : 479

Rhyphelia barbado sp. nov.

Figs 5A–5D , 7A–7B

Type material. Holotype: ♂ from Mata da Tijuquinha , Serra do Barbado , Distrito de Catolés, Abaíra, Bahia, Brazil (13.269°S, 41.911°W), 1.XI.2013, L.S. Carvalho & M.B. da Silva leg. (UFMG 14979).

Etymology. Epithet, a noun in apposition, is taken from type locality.

Diagnosis. Among the species of the genus, the male of R. barbado sp. nov. is most similar to that of R. otti sp. nov., as it has an elongated and flattened embolus, almost parallel to the longitudinal axis, with a fold at the most apical region (compare Figs 7A, 7C ). The male of R. barbado sp. nov. can be distinguished by the membranous lamella on the prolateral side of the embolus ( Fig. 7A ; smooth embolus in S. otti sp. nov., Fig. 7C ).

Description. Male holotype. Total Length: 2.97. Carapace dark brown ( Fig. 5A ), 1.56 long, 1.10 wide, 0.72 high. Ocular quadrangle 0.53; anterior eye row 1.10, posterior 1.05. Chelicera, labium, endite and sternum dark brown ( Fig. 5B ). Leg formula: 4312; length of legs: I 2.75 (0.84 + 0.45 + 0.72 + 0.43 + 0.31), II 2.16 (0.65 + 0.36 + 0.53 + 0.36 + 0.26), III 2.85 (0.96 + 0.45 + 0.60 + 0.53 + 0.31), IV 2.88 (0.89 + 0.36 + 0.60 + 0.65 + 0.38). Legs I–IV: femora, patellae, tibiae, and metatarsi dark brown, tarsi yellow. Tibia I macrosetae well developed, with tips of a more proximal pair surpassing insertions of the spines of a more distal pair. Abdomen dorsally dark brown, with a light brown transverse band on the posterior region ( Fig. 5A ). Ventrally brown ( Fig. 5B ). Spinnerets dark brown.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality (Bahia, Brazil) ( Fig. 23 ).

Figures

FIGURE 5. Rhyphelia spp. A–B Rhyphelia barbado sp. nov. holotype (A dorsal view; B ventral view), C–D male holotype, right palp, digitally inverted horizontally to mimic left palp (C ventral view; D retrolateral view). E–F Rhyphelia otti sp. nov. male holotype, left palp (E ventral view; F retrolateral view).

FIGURE 7. Rhyphelia spp. A–B Rhyphelia barbado sp. nov. male holotype, right palp, inverted (A ventral view; B retrolateral view). C–G Rhyphelia otti sp. nov. C–D male holotype, left palp (C ventral view; D retrolateral view). E–G epigyne (E ventral view; F same, cleared; G dorsal view).

FIGURE 23. Map with individual symbols for the new species of Rhyphelia described herein (species previously described and recorded are mapped as red triangles and were separate in the previous map). Brazilian states are in italics.