Sonoita ledouxi, 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 : 104-106

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7195528

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/321E341E-330C-4253-B145-4C317FC9BDC2

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Sonoita ledouxi
status

sp. nov.

Sonoita ledouxi sp. nov.

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Figs 61–62 View Fig View Fig

Diagnosis

This species is related to Sonoita lightfooti Peckham & Peckham, 1903 , but is lighter coloured. The male is best distinguished by the shape of the functional conductor, which is longer in the newly described species (compare Fig. 62A View Fig with Wanless 1985: fig. 11i). The epigyne is densely covered with white hairs, the seminal ducts are slender and longer than in S. lightfooti (compare Fig. 62D View Fig with Wanless 1985: fig. 11h).

Etymology

This species is dedicated to J.-C. Ledoux, the eminent French arachnologist, whose collection forms the basis of this paper.

Material examined

Holotype IVORY COAST • ♂; Lamto ; 6°13′ N, 5°01′ W; 2 Dec. 1975; “forêt de marigot salé, sur branches”; MNHN. GoogleMaps

Paratypes IVORY COAST • 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (together with holotype); same collection data as for holotype; MNHN GoogleMaps 1 ♀; Lamto; 17 Sep. 1975; “savane brulée en face de Tournier”; MNHN 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding, Bandama Forest ; 28 Nov. 1975; “sur branches”; MNHN .

Description

Male

MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 2.3–2.5, width 1.8–1.9, height 1.0. Eye field length 1.1–1.2, anterior width 1.3–1.4, posterior width 1.4–1.5. Abdomen length 2.3–2.6, width 1.3–1.4. General appearance as in Fig. 61A–B. A View Fig large spider, with slender and flattened body.

CARAPACE. Oval, dark brown, darkened towards margins, vicinity of eyes black. Fovea distinct, dark lines radiating from fovea. Whole carapace clothed in colourless hairs, denser on eye field, among them sparse long brown bristles, white hairs on slopes. Chelicerae pluridentate, with 3 teeth on promargin and 6 very small teeth on retromargin. Mouthparts brown with light tips. Sternum light brown.

ABDOMEN. Elongated, flat, with clearly visible sigilla, light, greyish olive colour. Dense long bristles at anterior abdominal margin. Spinnerets greyish.

LEGS. First pair longer than others, dark brown, only tarsi and base of metatarsi orange. Long, dense black feather-like hairs cover patella, tibia and femoral tip of first leg ventrally ( Fig. 61C View Fig ). Legs II–IV yellow, their femora brown. Leg hairs long, brown.

PEDIPALPS. Brown, white scales on distal end of tibia. Palpal organ as in Figs 61D–F View Fig , 62A–B View Fig . Tibial apophysis spatula-like, large ( Fig. 62B View Fig ).

Female

MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 2.5–2.7, width 1.7–2.0, height 1.0. Eye field length 1.2, anterior width 1.5, posterior width 1.6. Abdomen length 3.7, width 2.6. General appearance as in Fig. 61G View Fig . Resembles male but slightly larger and more hairy.

CARAPACE. Colouration as in male. Whole body densely cover by short whitish hairs. Anterior eyes framed with white scales. Clypeus clothed in white hairs.

ABDOMEN. Yellow with three brown longitudinal belts, long brown bristles at anterior edge.

LEGS. Brownish yellow, palps light.

EPIGYNE. Heavily sclerotized, with posterior notch, central area obscured by dense light hairs ( Figs 61H View Fig , 62C View Fig ). Internal structure strongly sclerotized, seminal ducts narrow and long, spermathecae large ( Fig. 62D View Fig ).

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

Sonoita

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