Hersiliola versicolor
Creators
- 1. IBPN RAS, Magadan,
- 2. Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
Description
Hersiliola versicolor (Blackwall, 1865)
Fig. 7.1 Hersilia v. Blackwall, 1865: 81 (D ♀).
H. v.: Simon 1893: 445.
H. v.: Foord and Dippenaar-Schoeman 2005: 261, f. 4A-D (♀).
Material examined: A slide of an epigyne (SMF, from the H. Wiehle collection) from “Kapeverde, Maio ” [= Cape Verde Islands, Maio Island]. Identified as H. simoni.
Diagnosis. H. versicolor is similar to H. simoni, but differs from it by the shape of the median plate of the epigyne, which is much higher and has a wider septum.
Description. Redescribed by Foord and Dippenaar-Schoeman (2005).
Comments. This species is known from females only. The shape of the median plate illustrated by Foord and Dippenaar-Schoeman (2005: fig. 4A) appears to be misinterpreted, judging from the figure of the vulva, and from the specimen (a slide of the epigyne) examined by us. Black dots on their fig. 4A and on our Fig. 7.1 seem to correspond to accessory glands. On the slide, glands seem to be displaced due to pressure from the cover glass.
Distribution. Known only from the Cape Verde Islands.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hersiliidae
- Genus
- Hersiliola
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Blackwall
- Species
- versicolor
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hersiliola versicolor (Blackwall, 1865) sec. Marusik & Fet, 2009
References
- Blackwall J (1865) Descriptions of recently discovered spiders collected in the Cape de Verde Islands by John Gray, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 16: 80 - 101.
- Simon E (1893) Histoire naturelle das araignees. Paris 1: 257 - 488.
- Foord SH, Dippenaar-Schoeman AS (2005) A revision of the Afrotropical species of Hersiliola Thorell and Tama Simon with the description of a new genus Tyrotama (Araneae: Hersiliidae). African Entomology 13 (2): 255 - 279.