Thyene ogdeni Peckham & Peckham, 1903

Wesolowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2009, Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa, African Invertebrates 50 (1), pp. 13-103 : 86-88

Thyene ogdeni Peckham & Peckham, 1903

Figs 182–191, 232, 233, 251

Thyene ogdeni: Peckham & Peckham 1903: 224 , pl. 25, fig. 2; Lessert 1925 a: 488, fig. 73.

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Measurements (male/female): Carapace length 3.6/3.7, width 3.1/3.1, height 1.7/1.6. Abdomen length 3.9/4.3, width 2.3/2.6. Eye field length 1.4/1.5, anterior width 2.0/2.1, posterior width 2.1/2.2.

Male.

General appearance in Figs 182, 232. Carapace oval, widest behind midpoint, light brown, darker at margins; eyes surrounded by black rings, some long brown bristles near anterior eyes; white scale-like hairs form transverse band on ocular area, behind anterior eyes and two streaks laterally from eye field; scattered white hairs on middle of thoracic part of carapace. Chelicerae and clypeus dark brown, labium and endites light brown with wide white tips; sternum whitish yellow. Abdomen elongate, narrow, yellowish medially, brownish laterally, with five pairs of black patches, between them small white spots ( Fig. 182); brown hairs sparsely cover dorsum of abdomen; venter whitish with silver patches of translucent guanine crystals; spinnerets light. First pair of legs larger than others, tibia with three retrolateral and four prolateral spines ventrally, metatarsus with two pairs of spines ventrally; legs generally light brown; ventral and prolateral surface of first femur decorated with black transverse stripes ( Fig. 182); coxae, trochanters and basal part of femora whitish; femora II–IV tinged with grey. Pedipalps dark yellow, white scales on palpal femur; tibia short, its apophysis armed with two very small teeth ( Fig. 186); at base of the apophysis few short sharp bristles ( Fig. 185); cymbium with row of thick sharp setae on retrolateral edge ( Fig. 184); tegulum rounded with small protuberance near base of embolus; embolus long, encircling tegulum three times ( Fig. 183).

Female.

General appearance in Figs 233, 251; similar to male but lighter coloured. Abdomen with wide yellow streak medially, with two brown lines lateral of the streak, cut in posterior part by small white patches ( Fig. 187); sides orange brownish. Legs yellow, first femur with transverse bands formed by dark spots ( Fig. 188). Epigyne typical for Thyene , very weakly sclerotised, rounded with shallow depression ( Fig. 189). Seminal ducts form a few loops, receptacles multi-chambered, complex ( Fig. 190, 191).

Material examined: 1ơ Crocodile Farm, Pongola R. floodplain, 26 ° 54.426'S: 32 ° 19.185'E, A. xanthophloea bark, 6.vii.2006 ( NMSA 21884 ); 1^Near pump, Pongola R . floodplain, 26 ° 54.323'S: 32 ° 19.435'E, riverine forest, beats, short shrubs, 27.vi.2006 ( NCA 2006 /1216); 1^same data ( NCA 2006 /1219); 1^Western shore of Shokwe Pan, 26 ° 52.013'S: 32 ° 12.982'E, F. sycomorus forest, beats, short shrubs, 4.xii.2000 ( NMSA 21885 ) .

Distribution: Species known only from South Africa.

Habitat and biology: This species was collected from the foliage of shrubs and short trees in full shade of RF and FF along the Pongola River and Shokwe Pan , respectively. A single specimen was collected from fever tree bark.