ZooKeys (Aug 2018)

New chrysilline and aelurilline jumping spiders from Pakistan (Araneae, Salticidae)

  • Pir Asmat Ali,
  • Wayne P. Maddison,
  • Muhammad Zahid,
  • Abida Butt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.783.21985
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 783
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Epocilla pakhtunkhwa Ali & Maddison, sp. n. and Stenaelurillus mardanicus Ali & Maddison, sp. n. are described from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Noted for the first time is the presence in Epocilla of a small bump just anterior to the fovea of the carapace, of unknown functional significance, otherwise known in the unrelated Opisthoncus L. Koch, 1880 and Cocalus Pocock, 1897. In addition, the female of Menemerus nigli Wesołowska & Freudenschuss, 2012 is described for the first time.