Yimbulunga foordi Wesołowska, Azarkina, and Russell-Smith 2014
- Dataset
- Euophryine jumping spiders of the Afrotropical Region-new taxa and a checklist (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- 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): 1-72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3789.1
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Arachnida
- order
- Araneae
- family
- Salticidae
- genus
- Yimbulunga
- species
- Yimbulunga foordi
description
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.
description
Figs 250 – 256
diagnosis
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).
distribution
Distribution. The type locality only.
etymology
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.
materials_examined
Holotype: male, SOUTH AFRICA, KwaZulu-Natal Province, Ngoye Forest, 28 ° 50 ' S: 31 ° 40 ' E, on herb, 11 January 1983, leg. P. E. Reavell (NMSA 26450).