Gambaquezonia
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| Genus: | Gambaquezonia Barrion & Litsinger, 1995
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| Species: | G. itimana
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| Gambaquezonia itimana Barrion & Litsinger, 1995
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| 1 species | |
Gambaquezonia is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). It was first described in some detail by Barrion & Litsinger (1995) from the female holotype, the only known specimen at the time. Its general appearance was later redescribed by Murphy and Murphy (2000).[1] Its single species, described from a single collected female[2] was found in rice fields of Luzon Island on the Philippines.
Description
G. itimana is a long green jumping spider, similar and probably related to Orthrus and Asemonea. The female is 6 mm long. The carapace is pale yellow, with a black band surrounding the eyes and reaching to the rear margin. The yellow abdomen features some longitudinal grey stripes and a wide black band, followed by two lateral black spots. The legs are yellow, with dark stripes on some segments.[2]
The female has several unusual morphological features, including a large number of ventral macrosetae on legs I and II, prominate sparse rows of elongate setae on the dorsum, a multi-cusped retromarginal tooth, and an epigynum, superficially this looks like a euophryine, but is quite different structurally.[3]
Footnotes
References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
- Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings
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