Langona recta, Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022

Wesołowska, Wanda & Russell-Smith, Anthony, 2022, Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J. - C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 841 (1), pp. 1-143 : 50-53

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7225657

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/605820C4-5F45-42F5-BF9A-AAB9C1E26053

taxon LSID

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treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Langona recta
status

sp. nov.

Langona recta sp. nov.

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Fig. 32 View Fig

Diagnosis

The male of this species can be easily separated from congeners by the shape of the palpal tibial apophysis which is straight with a blunt tip, while curved and pointed in other species.

Etymology

The specific name is Latin, meaning ‘straight’, and refers to the shape of the tibial apophysis of the palp.

Material examined

Holotype IVORY COAST • ♂; Lamto ; 23 Nov. 1975; “savane non-brulée, base des herbes”; MNHN.

Paratype IVORY COAST • 1 ♂; same collection data as for holotype; MNHN. Other material

IVORY COAST • 1 ♂; Lamto ; 26 Oct. 1975; “savane à Loudetia ; virage glissant, au sol”; MNHN .

Description

Male

MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 4.0, width 2.7, height 1.2. Eye field length 1.2, anterior width 1.9, posterior width 2.0. Abdomen length 3.0–3.5, width 2.1–2.3. General appearance as in Fig. 32A View Fig . Hairy spider coloured black.

CARAPACE. Shining, clothed in delicate dense hairs, long bristles on eye field. Eye field short, ocupying third of carapace length. Chelicerae with short fangs, promargin with two very small teeth, retromargin toothless.

ABDOMEN. Anterior two thirds covered with sclerotized scutum, trace of white median streak posteriorly.

LEGS. Black, bearing dense hairs.

PEDIPALPS. Black with whitish dorsal surface of cymbium. Structure typical for other species of Langona ( Fig. 32B–D View Fig ), embolus hidden, only its end is visible, palpal apophysis straight, blunt at tip, with accompanying tuft of bristles ( Fig. 32C View Fig ).

Female

Unknown.

Distribution

Only known from the type locality, Lamto, Ivory Coast.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Langona

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