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Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, Xviii ANNALES ZOOLOGICI (Warszawa), 2004, 54(3): 587-590 SALTICIDAE (ARACHNIDA: ARANEAE) FROM THE ORIENTAL, AUSTRALIAN AND PACIFIC REGIONS, XVIII. HUNTIGLENNIA – A NEW GENUS FROM AUSTRALIA Marek Żabka¹ and Michael R. Gray² ¹Katedra Zoologii AP, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland, [email protected] ²Australian Museum, Sydney, 6 College Street, NSW 2010, [email protected] Abstract.— Huntiglennia williamsi gen. and sp. nov. is described from New South Wales, Australia. Remarks on relationships and biology are provided and diagnostic drawings and distributional map is given. Key words.— Salticidae, Australia, new genus, new species. Introduction Etymology. After late Dr. Glenn Stuart Hunt, arachno- logist at the Australian Museum, Sydney, a friend of ours. The current check-list of Australian Salticidae Diagnosis. A small spider (2–4 mm). Eyes in 4 includes some 80 genera and 340 species (Richardson rows – more distinctive in females. Body flattened, and Żabka 2003, in prep.), but biodiversity surveys cephalothorax pear-shaped, abdomen egg-shaped, spin- held all over the continent reveal that the fauna is nerets not distinctive. Clypeus very narrow. Chelicerae much richer and many new genera and species are to vertical, of unidentati pattern. Maxillae twice as long be described (Żabka, unpubl.). The spider treated here as wide, labium not distinctive, sternum long-cordate. firstly attracted our attention due to unusual female Leg formula: male: 4-1-2(3)-3(2), female: 4-1-2(3)-3(2). eye arrangement and was suspected to represent a new Male palpal organ with cymbial flanges, tibia swollen salticid subfamily. Further investigation of both sexes with massive tibial apophysis; its dorsolateral branch revealed it represented a new genus, probably related to crescent-like. Female insemination ducts strongly scle- Zebraplatys Żabka, 1992. rotised, spermathecae C-shaped. Relationships. The eyes in 4 rows are rare in Salticidae. Sometimes, e.g., in the subfamily Lyssomaninae, they are Material and methods correlated with other “primitive” genitalic and behaviour- al characters (Wanless 1980) and are considered ancestral. The material was provided by Graham Milledge In cases such as Huntiglennia, Athamas and other genera (Australian Museum, Sydney = AMS). The details of from various subfamilies, eye arrangement seems to have specimen examination were described earlier (Żabka nothing to do with salticid origin as other characteristics, 1991). The following measurements were taken: including genitalia, are typical for higher salticids. AEW – anterior eyes width, AL – abdomen length, The cymbial flange and tibial apophysis in male CH – cephalothorax height, CL – cephalothorax length, palpal organ suggest the relationships with the genus CW – cephalothorax width, EFL – eye field length, L1, Zebraplatys. Both also share a pear-shaped cephalotho- L2, L3, L4 – leg lengths, PEW – posterior eyes width. rax and flattened body form. Taxonomy Huntiglennia williamsi sp. nov. (Figs 1–13) Huntiglennia gen. nov. Type material. New South Wales: 1F holotype, 0.5 Type species. Huntiglennia williamsi sp. nov. km SE Lansdowne, 31°47'S, 152°32'E, Malaise, 0–10 m, 588 M. ŻABKA and M. R. GRAY scale-like hairs forming median parting on eye field. Eye field blackish, thorax brown. Above ALE, dark bristles form 1 “brows”. Abdomen blackish brown with 0. herring bone pattern of white scale- 6 0. like hairs. Spinnerets blackish brown. Clypeus very narrow. Around anterior eyes white and yellowish scale-like hairs with longer ones overhanging cheliceral bases. Chelicerae rather long, vertical, brown, with 2 promarginal teeth and one retromarginal tooth (Fig. 4). Pedipalps greyish brown. Maxillae dirty brown, labium darker, both with yellow tips. Sternum dirty brown. Venter blackish. First legs rather stout, femora greyish 5 brown, lighter distally, patellae orange with dark distal parts, tibiae, metatarsi and tarsi greyish brown. Tibiae with 1 2 retro-ventro-lateral spines, tarsi with 2 pairs of ventro-lateral spines. Other legs with brownish-grey and greyish- 2 yellow bands on proximal and distal parts of podomeres, respectively. All legs with brownish, long and white, scale- like hairs, the latter more numerous at 3 lighter areas. Epigyne (Fig. 5) strongly sclerotised, with anterior window-like depression. Copulatory openings lead into broad ducts connecting to thick walled spermathecae (Fig. 6). CL 1.10, EFL 0.39, AEW 0.39, PEW 0.54, CW 0.75, CH 0.33, AL 1.24, L1 1.45, L2 1.31, L3 1.28, L4 1.78. Male paratype. Cephalothorax dark- brown, darker on eye field, with adpressed white hairs denser along median part and 6 divided by median parting. Above anteri- or eyes brown bristles form “brows” – but less distinctive than in female. Abdomen 4 in poor condition, with herring bone pat- tern as in female. Anterior and posterior Figures 1–6. Huntiglennia williamsi sp. nov., female. (1) General appearance, (2) side view of cepha- spinnerets brown, median ones lighter. lothorax, (3) anterior eye pattern, (4) cheliceral dentition, (5) epigyne, (6) internal genitalia. Clypeus narrow, brown with light hairs. Chelicerae (Fig. 8) brown, vertical, armed mangrove-riverine rainforest, 2–14 Feb. 1993, G. Williams, as in female. Pedipalps light-brown. Maxillae and labium AMS KS56368; 1M paratype, Warrumbungle NP, Camp brown, lighter (yellowish) distally. Sternum dirty-brown. Pincham car park, 31°18'S, 149°00'E, general collecting in Venter anteriorly grey, lighter behind epigastric fold. Legs eucalypt-callitris gully woodland with shrubby understory, I rather stout, femora dirty brown, their distal parts and 2 Jan. 2000, G. Milledge, H. Smith, AMS KS62227. patellae yellowish, tibiae dirty brown, metatarsi and tarsi Etymology. After Dr. Geoff Williams, entomologist, light brown, metatarsus with 2 prolateral spines. Other collector of the holotype specimen. legs more delicate, femora dirty brown, other podomeres Diagnosis. Distinctive by its colour and genitalic with dark and light bands. Palpal organ (Figs 10–13) mas- pattern. sive, with crescent-like embolus, sac-like bulbus, semi- Description. Female holotype (Fig. 1). Cephalothorax nal duct not meandering, dorsum of cymbium divided pear-shaped, flattened (Fig. 2), covered with white basally. Tibia wide, swollen, its retrolateral apophysis HUNTIGLENNIA GEN. NOV. FROM AUSTRALIA 589 0.3 7 10 11 2 8 0. 15 0. 12 13 9 Figures 7–13. Huntiglennia williamsi sp. nov., male. (7) First leg, prolateral view, (8) cheliceral dentition, (9) eye pattern, (10–13) palpal organ. divided into a dorsolateral, crescent-like part and a short, genus, Huntiglennia. However, given their respective swollen ventrolateral part. CL 1.35, EFL 0.60, AEW 0.69, locality separations and habitat differences, there must be PEW 0.69, CW 0.99, CH 0.48, AL. 1.78, L1 2.17, L2 1.89, some doubts about their specific status. The spiders appear L3 1.89, L4 2.24. to be rare. Field work by the authors at the holotype local- Distribution. Known only from 2 localities in New ity and a more recent field trip to the Warrumbungles South Wales (Fig. 14). Range area by MRG failed to locate further material for Comments. The male and female specimens described comparison. Consequently, they are described as conspe- above are undoubtedly congeneric members of a unique cific here until more material is available. 590 M. ŻABKA and M. R. GRAY Acknowledgements Geoff Williams (Landsdowne, NSW, Australia) collected the first specimen of this unusual genus and accompanied us on field work. Graham Milledge (Australian Museum, Sydney) provided specimens for study. The research was supported by the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research (grant 6PO4C01115) and by my University (grants 18/91/ and 512/93/W). References Richardson, B. J. and M. Żabka. 2003. Salticidae. In: The Australian Faunal Directory, Arachnida: Araneomorphae. Canberra, Australian Biological Resources Study, www.ea.gov.au/biodiver- sity/abrs/online-resources/abif/fauna. Wanless, F.R. 1980. A revision of the spider genera Asemonea and Pandissus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 39: 213–257. Żabka, M. 1991. Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, V. Genus Holoplatys Simon 1885. Records of the Australian Museum, 43: 171–240. Żabka, M. 1992. Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, VIII. A new genus from Australia. Figure 14. Distribution of Huntiglennia williamsi sp. nov. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 15: 673–684. Received: April 15, 2004 Accepted: August 2, 2004.
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