Icius bamboo Cao & Li

Cao, Qi, Li, Shuqiang & Żabka, Marek, 2016, The jumping spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Salticidae), ZooKeys 630, pp. 43-104 : 59-61

Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Salticidae

Icius bamboo Cao & Li sp. n. Figs 26, 27, 43

Type.

Holotype ♂: CHINA, Yunnan, Mengla County, Menglun Town, Bamboo plantation, G213 (21°53.646'N, 101°16.975'E, 589 m), 26 November 2009, G. Tang & Z. Yao leg.

Etymology.

The species was collected from a bamboo plantation; noun.

Diagnosis.

The male resembles Icius hamatus (see Andreeva et al. 1984: figs 1-4), but the embolus is straight and digitiform (Fig. 26D) vs. bent and needle-like; the RTA is entire (unbranched) and bent dorsally (Fig. 26B) vs. with two branches and nearly triangular apophyses in Icius hamatus .

Description.

Male (holotype). Total length 4.23, CL 1.53, CW 0.90, AL 1.70, AW 0.80. Eye measurements: AME 0.31, ALE 0.15, PME 0.03, PLE 0.16, AER 1.00, PER 1.10, EFL 0.81. Clypeus 0.05 high. Legs: I 2.05 (0.65, 0.39, 0.49, 0.30, 0.22); II 1.70 (0.50, 0.30, 0.38, 0.27, 0.25); III 1.81 (0.56, 0.25, 0.40, 0.35, 0.25); IV 2.25 (0. 75, 0.32, 0.46, 0.44, 0.28).

Carapace dark brown (Fig. 27A). Sides and clypeus margins with a strip of white hairs. Chelicerae dark brown. Maxillae greyish yellow, inner margin with dense setae. Labium brown, tip with greyish hairs. Sternum greyish brown. Abdomen oval, with transverse alternating dark and light stripes. Venter and spinnerets grey. Legs I more robust and darker than other legs, which are yellowish. Spination of leg I: femur d4-1-1; tibia v2-0-2; metatarsus v2-0-2. Palpal tibia short, about 1/3 the length of cymbium, RTA bent, strong and with blunt tip (Fig. 26B). Bulb about twice as long as wide. Seminal duct encircling tegulum retrolaterally. Embolus short, digitiform, (Fig. 26D).

Female. Unknown.

Distribution.

Known only from the type locality.