Balmaceda picta Peckham & Peckham, 1894

Galvis, William, Pulgarín, O., Correa, E., Castrillón, I. & Acevedo, N., 2018, First record of the jumping spider genus Balmaceda Peckham & Peckham (Salticidae: Salticinae: Dendryphantini) from Colombia, Peckhamia 163 (1), pp. 1-5 : 3

Balmaceda picta Peckham & Peckham, 1894

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Balmaceda picta Peckham & Peckham, 1894: 101 , pl. 10, fig. 1; F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901:

297, pl. 28, figs. 18-19; Chickering, 1946: 61, figs. 42-44; Edwards, 2006: 211, figs. 115-122;

World Spider Catalog, 2018.

Material examined. 1♀ from Colombia, Nariño, Tumaco, Sede Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1.8°N, 78.75°W, 30 m, 4-14 .III .2015, W. Galvis (ICN-Ar 8584) .

Note. For diagnosis and further taxonomic information including a diagnostic comparison with B. nigrosecta see Edwards (2006: 211) and Rubio et al. (2016: 13).

Distribution and Natural History. Previously known from Guatemala (Izabal) and Panama (Canal Zone Biological Area) ( World Spider Catalog, 2018). This is a new record of the genus and species from Colombia ( Figure 8 ), representing the southernmost record of the species ( Figure 8 ). The female specimen was collected by beating low scrubs in the daytime, in a secondary Chocoan wet forest.

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Figure 8. Known distribution of the genus Balmaceda in Colombia. Map by Mapswire.com (https://mapswire.com) used and modified under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

Figures 1-7. 1-2, Dorsal and frontal views of living ♂ Balmaceda nigrosecta (ICN-Ar 8339) from Colombia. Photographs by Ovidio Pulgarín. 3, Habitus of ♂ Balmaceda nigrosecta (ICN-Ar 8339). 4, Same, retrolateral view of left pedipalp. 5, Same, ventral view of left pedipalp. 6, Habitus of ♀ B. picta (ICN-Ar 8584). 7, Same, ventral view of epigynum. Abbreviations: AT=atrium, e=embolus, co=copulatory opening, sp=spermatheca, spe=spermophore, RTA=retrolateral tibial apophysis.