African Invertebrates (Dec 2024)

A new species and new records of Chumma (Araneae, Macrobunidae) from South Africa

  • Yuri M. Marusik,
  • Charles R. Haddad

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/afrinvertebr.65.138735
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 65, no. 2
pp. 329 – 338

Abstract

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A new species of the genus Chumma Jocqué, 2001, C. foordi sp. nov., is described from the Western Cape, South Africa. New distribution records for C. bicolor Jocqué & Alderweireldt, 2018, C. foliata Jocqué & Alderweireldt, 2018 and C. gastroperforata Jocqué, 2001 are presented. The genus is recorded from the Northern Cape Province for the first time, extending its range extensively to the northwest by approximately 450 km. The distribution of all Chumma species is mapped.