Mago intentus O. Pickard-Cambridge 1882
Creators: name: Ruiz, Gustavo R. S.
name: Maddison, Wayne P.
name: Galiano, Maria Elena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Mago
Mago intentus

description: Mago intentus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882
Figs 1–9
Mago intenta O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882: 439, pl. 31, fig. 14 (male holotype from uncertain locality in the Amazon, Traill leg., deposited in Oxford University Museum, examined, described and illustrated by MEG).
Mago intentus: Galiano 1968 (340); World Spider Catalog 2019.
Reconstructed etymology. Latin adjective (= intent, determinate, alert).
Diagnosis. The male of Mago intentus differs from that of M. brimodes sp. nov. by having a longer embolus (Fig. 6; compare with Fig. 28). Female is unknown.
Redescription. Male (holotype). Total length: 3.37. Carapace 1.77 long, 1.47 wide and 1.12 high, reddish brown, with brown cephalic region, covered with abundant brown setae. Anterior border with a series of reddish setae. Behind these, on each side, a small band of grayish setae. Ocular quadrangle 0.89 long. Cephalic region almost plane. Anterior eye row 1.30 wide, posterior 1.42 wide. Distance between PME and ALE: 0.20; between PME and PLE: 0.22. Diameter of AME: 0.50. Clypeus 0.20 high, with marginal beard of yellowish white hairs. Fovea slightly behind posterior border of PLE, at a depression (Fig. 1). Anterior half of thoracic region at the same level of cephalic region, then with an abrupt decline, becoming almost vertical (Fig. 2), with a narrow marginal stripe of yellowish setae, interrupted in the middle. Sternum reddish brown, convex, 0.60 long, 0.56 wide (Fig. 4). Labium reddish brown, 0.35 long, 0.30 wide. Endite reddish brown, strongly convex, angled on external tips (Figs 4–5), but with no apophysis or bumps. Chelicera reddish brown, vertical, straight; promargin with five separate teeth; retromargin with five small teeth; no teeth in the groove; fang with small dorsal carina; anterior face plane, with small mastidion (Figs 3–4); external borders with poorly conspicuous transverse striae. Palp robust, with swollen patella (Figs 8–9). Palpal femur 0.76 long, 0.22 wide; patella 0.43 long, 0.22 wide; tibia 0.18 long, 0.20 wide; cymbium 0.50 long. Palpal femur with a series of seven dorsal spines. Dorsal tip of femur and dorsal patella with abundant yellow hairs. Palpal tibia with RTA and RvTA (Fig. 7); Bulb with long embolus (Fig. 6). Legs with internal bump on coxae, more prominent on I (Fig. 4). Trochanters also with ventral bump. Leg I robust. Patellae are narrow at their base and dilated in the middle. Leg III longer and more robust than IV. Tibiae III and IV distally dilated. Tarsi slightly dilated. Leg spination: femur I, II d1-1-1, p1di, III d1-1-1, p0-1-2, IV d1-1-1; patella I 0, II p1, III, IV r1; tibia I v2-2 -2, II v1 r-2-2, p1, III p1-1, r1-1, v1 rdi, IV p1, r1-1, v1 rdi; metatarsus I, II v2-2, III p1-2, r1-2, v1 r-1r, IV p1di, r1-2, v1 p-2. Leg I with abundant ventral setae, not forming fringe. Leg I reddish brown, with yellow metatarsus and tarsus; II–IV yellow, with dark articulations. Abdomen small and cordiform, dorsally yellow with three or four grayish chevrons, and with a pattern of red and white setae (Fig. 1); ventrally yellow.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution. Known only from uncertain type locality in the Amazon.
description: Published as part of Ruiz, Gustavo R. S., Maddison, Wayne P. & Galiano, Maria Elena, 2019, A revision of the concept of Mago O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882, and proposal of a new genus (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycini), pp. 124-140 in Zootaxa 4658 (1) on pages 129-130, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4658.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3373137