Chalcolemia nakanai, 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 : 20

publication ID

6C5A73BD-5322-4D44-BD4A-04886A4911A3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6C5A73BD-5322-4D44-BD4A-04886A4911A3

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5257512

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DF6A5B-832D-CF40-6793-2B48FBA1C5A0

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Chalcolemia nakanai
status

sp. nov.

Chalcolemia nakanai View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 91–95

Type material. Holotype: female, PAPUA NEW GUINEA: New Britain, Nakanai Mts, Camp 1, Lamas , 3–8 April 2009, 5.614° S, 151.408° E, elev. 200 m, coll. I. Agnarsson ( UBC-SEM AR00090 ). GoogleMaps

Etymology. A noun in apposition taken from the type locality.

Diagnosis. The retromargin of chelicera has one fissident tooth of four cusps ( Fig. 92); the opening to the copulatory duct is near the center of the window ( Fig. 93); the primary spermatheca is smaller than the secondary spermatheca ( Figs 94–95).

Description. Female (holotype, UBC-SEM AR00090). Carapace length 1.7; abdomen length 2.9. Chelicera ( Fig. 92): light yellow; with two promarginal teeth and one retromarginal tooth of four cusps. Epigynum ( Figs 93–95): median septum of window relatively wide; opening to copulatory duct close to the center of window. Copulatory duct without accessory gland; secondary spermatheca large and oval, primary spermatheca smaller. First pair of legs very long; tibia with nine proventral and eight retroventral macrosetae. Measurements of legs: I 7.4, II 3.9, III 4.7, IV 5.8. Color in alcohol ( Fig. 91): carapace yellow brown, eye area gray brown with indistinct guanine deposit; posterior part of carapace with a “U”-shaped gray brown marking; abdomen light sandy brown, with brown to dark brown irregular markings in the middle; venter of abdomen and legs light sandy yellow.

Natural history. The specimen was collected by beating foliage in forest.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Chalcolemia

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