Topic
Evarcha
About: Evarcha is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 26 publications have been published within this topic receiving 380 citations.
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TL;DR: An improved diagnosis and definition of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 is presented, with new taxonomic and faunistic data for 23 species.
Abstract: This paper presents an improved diagnosis and definition of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886, with new taxonomic and faunistic data for 23 species. The genera Microheros Wesolowska & Cumming, 1999 and Mashonarus Wesolowska & Cumming, 2002 are synonymized with Stenaelurillus . Six new species are described: Stenaelurillus bandama sp. nov. (♂♀, from Cote d’Ivoire), S. belihuloya sp. nov. (♂, from Sri Lanka), S. jocquei sp. nov. (♂♀, from Cameroon), S. pseudoguttatus sp. nov. (♂, from Namibia), S. senegalensis sp. nov. (♂♀, from Senegal), and Stenaelurillus siyamae sp. nov. (♀, from Sudan). Lectotypes are designated for two species: S. albopunctatus Caporiacco, 1949 (♂) from Kenya and S. werneri Simon, 1906 (♀) from South Sudan. Six new combinations are proposed: Aelurillus ambiguus (Denis, 1966), comb. nov. (ex Stenaelurillus ); Evarcha werneri (Simon, 1906), comb. nov. (ex Stenaelurillus ); Phlegra davidi (Caleb, Mungkung & Mathai, 2015), comb. nov. (ex Mashonarus ); Stenaelurillus brandbergensis (Wesolowska, 2006), comb. nov. (ex Mashonarus ); Stenaelurillus guttatus (Wesolowska & Cumming, 2002), comb. nov. (ex Mashonarus ); and S. termitophagus (Wesolowska & Cumming, 1999), comb. nov. (ex Microheros ). Two species names are synonymized: Evarcha elegans Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 with E. werneri comb. nov.; and Aelurillus sahariensis Berland & Millot, 1941 with Stenaelurillus nigricaudus Simon, 1886. The female of S. fuscatus Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 is described for the first time.
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TL;DR: The form and location of the scales of Salticid spiders, as revealed by light and scanning electron microscopy, provide useful diagnostic characters for the separation of species, the assignment of species to genera, and a further understanding of the relationships between salticid genera.
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TL;DR: The rich diversity of Salticidae collected in this study, and the proportion of new species relative to the total jumping spider fauna, highlight the need to maintain conservation efforts within Maputaland protected areas with management plans that also take invertebrate taxa into consideration.
Abstract: Salticids from the Ndumo Game Reserve (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) are described. In total 72 species of 38 genera were found, of which one genus Aenigma gen. n. and 14 species are described as new: Aenigma incognita sp. n., Bianor eximius sp. n., Evarcha mirabilis sp. n., E. striolata sp. n., Habrocestum africanum sp. n., Icius nigricaudus sp. n., Massagris natalensis sp. n., Phlegra arborea sp. n., Ph. certa sp. n., Pignus pongola sp. n., Pseudicius venustulus sp. n., Rhene pinguis sp. n., Thyenula fidelis sp. n., and Th. magna sp. n. Three specific names are synonymised: Cyrba armata Wesolowska, 2006 with C. lineata Wanless, 1984; Pellenes pulcher Wesolowska, 1999 (junior homonym of P. pulcher Logunov, 1995) with P. tharinae Wesolowska, 2006; and Thyene strandi Caporiacco, 1939 with Th. natalii Peckham & Peckham, 1903. A new combination, Evarcha annae (ex Habrocestum annae Peckham & Peckham, 1903) is proposed. Twenty species are recorded from South Africa for the first time: Asemonea Stella W...
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TL;DR: The paper is a review of the genus Pellenes in the fauna of Central Asia and the Caucasus and five species are newly synonymized, of which nine are described as new to science.
Abstract: The paper is a review of the genus Pellenes (s. lat.) in the fauna of Central Asia and the Caucasus. The genus Pellenes (s. lat.) is rede® ned and subdivided into four subgenera according to the structure of genitalia: Pellenes (s. str.), Pelpaucus subgen. nov., Pelmultus subgen. nov. and Pelmirus subgen. nov. Altogether 23 species have been treated, of which nine are described as new to science: Pellenes amazonka sp. nov. (female), P. badkhyzicus sp. nov. (male), P. borisi sp. nov. (female), P. karakumensis sp. nov. (male), P. bonus sp. nov. (male), P. pamiricus sp. nov. (male and female), P. pseudobrevis sp. nov. (male and female), P. sytchevskayae sp. nov. (male and female) and P. turkmenicus sp. nov. (male and female). Five species are newly synonymized: P. maderianus Kulczyn ski, 1905 with P. epularis (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872); P. kulabicus Andreeva, 1976 and P. simoni (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) with P. geniculatus (Simon, 1868); and P. albomaculatus Peng and Xie, 1993 with P. denisi Schenkel, 1963; P. tauricus (Thorell, 1875) is removed from synonymy with P. simoni (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) and is shown to be a junior synonym of P. nigrociliatus (Simon in L. Koch, 1875). A lectotype is designated for Pellenes brevis Simon, 1868. P. campylophorous (Thorell, 1875) is recognized to be nomen dubium. Pellenes calvus (Simon, 1868) is excluded from the Central Asian fauna of Pellenes. Evarcha lapponica (Sundevall, 1832), comb. nov. (ex Pellenes), is proposed. Some
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