Papuamyr, Maddison, Wayne P. & Szűts, Tamas, 2019

Maddison, Wayne P. & Szűts, Tamas, 2019, Myrmarachnine jumping spiders of the new subtribe Levieina from Papua New Guinea (Araneae, Salticidae, Myrmarachnini), ZooKeys 842, pp. 85-112 : 85

Papuamyr gen. n.

Type species.

Papuamyr omhifosga sp. n.

Etymology.

A blend of Papua and the first syllable of the name of the related genus Myrmarachne . To be treated as feminine, as is Myrmarachne .

Diagnosis.

Small antlike salticids with somewhat swollen male first legs, vertical and excavated male chelicerae with an ectal spur on the paturon, a round bulb on the palp, and a relatively long RTA. In contrast, the Ligonipes group of genera has the bulb of the male palp compressed laterally ( Davies and Żabka 1989: figs 7 and 9), while most Myrmarachne males have projecting chelicerae and thin first legs. An apparent synapomorphy uniting the two Papuamyr species described below is a complex fold in the embolus at the point where it crosses over previous loops before terminating (see black arrows in Figs 70 and 78).

Remarks.

Papuamyr lacks the morphological diagnostic characters of the Ligonipedina and Myrmarachnina, but we have not found morphological characters that place it more clearly. The molecular data, however, are clear that Papuamyr is within the Levieina and a close relative of Agorioides (Fig. 1).