Yimbulunga foordi, Wesołowska & Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014

Wesołowska, Wanda, Azarkina, Galina N. & Russell-Smith, Anthony, 2014, Euophryine jumping spiders of the Afrotropical Region-new taxa and a checklist (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae), Zootaxa 3789 (1), pp. 1-72 : 70

Yimbulunga foordi sp. nov.

Figs 250–256

Holotype: male, SOUTH AFRICA, KwaZulu-Natal Province, Ngoye Forest , 28°50'S: 31°40'E, on herb, 11 January 1983, leg. P.E. Reavell ( NMSA26450 ).

Diagnosis. The species is easily separable from other Euophryinae in having a characteristic stout body form with a high carapace and by the fissident cheliceral dentition (bicuspid retromarginal tooth).

Etymology. The species is dedicated to Stefan Foord, an arachnologist from University of Venda in South Africa, who hosted the second author (G.A.) during a visit to South Africa as part of this study.

Description. Measurements. Cephalothorax: length 1.8, width 1.5, height 1.0. Abdomen: length 1.4, width 1.4. Eye field: length 1.0, anterior width 1.4, posterior width 1.5.

Male. General appearance as in Figs 250–252 . Very small spider with stout body. Carapace high, eye field large, occupying more than half of carapace, delicately pitted. Eyes surrounded by black rings (except anterior medians), thoracic part dark brown, fovea short and distinct. Eyes of first row encircled by small white scales, white hairs forming tufts between anterior eyes. Some greyish hairs on carapace slopes. Clypeus moderately high, brown ( Fig. 253 ). Chelicerae stout, with two adjacent promarginal teeth and bicuspid retromarginal tooth ( Fig. 254 ), fang short. Sternum, labium and endites brown, chewing margins lighter. Abdomen small, rounded (as broad as long), reddish brown, dorsum covered with delicate scutum, some longer hairs on anterior edge of abdomen. Sides and venter blackish. Legs short, brown with some light scales on tibiae, spines brown, leg hairs light. Pedipalp brown, white scales on tibia and cymbium. Palpal organ with small proximal lobe on bulb, embolus thin, forming one complete coil, with tip directed towards tip of cymbium ( Figs 255, 256 ).

Female unknown.

Distribution. The type locality only.

Figures

FIGURES 250–256. Yimbulunga foordi sp. nov. 250, 251 male holotype, dorsal view; 252 male holotype, lateral view; 253 male holotype, frontal view; 254 cheliceral dentition; 255 palpal organ, ventral view; 256 palpal organ, retrolateral view.