Mogrus mathisi ( Berland & Millot, 1941 )

Wesołowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2013, New data on the jumping spiders of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae), African Invertebrates 54 (1), pp. 177-177 : 212

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Mogrus mathisi ( Berland & Millot, 1941) View in CoL View at ENA

Fig. 20

Philaeus mathisi: Berland & Millot 1941: 341 , fig. 46.

Philaeus senilis: Denis 1955: 126 , figs 26–28.

Mogrus dillae: Prószyński 1989: 40 View in CoL , figs 18–20; Wesołowska & van Harten 1994: 56, figs 115, 116; Wesołowska & Russell-Smith 2000: 70, figs 185–187.

Mogrus mathisi: Wesołowska 2003: 426 View in CoL , figs 1–10; 2011: 333; Logunov 2004: 88; Wesołowska & van

Harten 2007: 235, figs 131–134; Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz 2008: 28.

Wesołowska (2003) described both sexes; male chelicerae clothed in dense white hairs, contrasting with the dark colouration of the carapace ( Fig. 20).

Material examined: SOUTH AFRICA: Free State: 3♂ 1♀ Amanzi Private Game Reserve , 28°35.558'S 26°26.032'E, 1427 m, grassland, canopy fogging Acacia karroo , 25.xii.2010, V. Butler (NCA, 2011/915). Distribution: Species widely distributed in Africa and the Middle East, recorded from South Africa for the first time here ( Fig. 114) GoogleMaps .

Habitat and biology: The record presented here is derived from fogging a sweet-thorn ( Acacia karroo tree) in open grassland.

References

BERLAND, L. & MILLOT, J. 1941. Les araignees de l'Afrique occidentale francaise. I. - Les Salticides. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (N. S.) 12: 297 - 424.

DENIS, J. 1955. Contribution a l'etude de l'Air (Mission L. Chopard et A. Villiers). Araignees. Bulletin de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire 17: 99 - 146.

WESOLOWSKA, W. & VAN HARTEN, A. 1994. The jumping spiders (Salticidae, Araneae) of the Yemen. Yemeni- German Plant Protection Project. Sana'a: Horizonts Printing & Publishing.

WESOLOWSKA, W. & RUSSELL-SMITH, A. 2000. Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae: Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 13: 11 - 127.

WESOLOWSKA, W. & TOMASIEWICZ, B. 2008. New species and records of Ethiopian jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 4: 3 - 59.