Phasmolia, Zhang & Maddison, 2012

Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, Wayne P., 2012, New euophryine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae) 3491, Zootaxa 3491, pp. 1-74 : 39

Genus Phasmolia new genus

Type species: Phasmolia elegans Zhang & Maddison , sp. nov.

Etymology. The generic name is derived from the Latin phasma (ghost), referring to the ghost-like appearance of the species; feminine in gender.

Diagnosis. Resembles Lakarobius Berry, Beatty & Prószyṅski, 1998 and Bindax Thorell (see Prószyṅski 1984) in body form and color pattern, but differs from them by the absence of a proximal tegular lobe and retrolateral sperm duct loop in the male palp ( Figs 191–192). This genus can also be distinguished from Lakarobius by the chelicera with three promarginal teeth ( Fig. 193; two in Lakarobius ) and one bicuspid retromarginal tooth ( Fig. 193; four cusps in Lakarobius ), and the median septum of female epigynum, which is not continuous with the anterior rim of the window ( Fig. 194). Also similar to Athamas O. P.—Cambridge (see Jendrzejewska 1995), Bulolia Żabka, 1996 and Leptathamas Balogh, 1980a (see Szű ts 2003) in the ALEs, which are posterior to the AMEs, but can be easily distinguished from them by the shape of the genitalic organs ( Figs 191–192, 194–195).