Bianor kovaczi Logunov 2001
Creators: name: Logunov, Dmitri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Bianor
Bianor kovaczi

description: <i>Bianor kovaczi</i> Logunov, 2001 Figs 1-6 <b>Identification.</b> Weso&amp;lstrok;owska and Tomasiewicz (2008: figs 13-20). <b>Material examined.</b> IVORY COAST: 2♁ 7&amp;female; (BMNH), Bouaké, West African Rice Development Association, in irrigated rice plots, 08.1994, ARS; 1♁ (BMNH), same locality, trash management experiment, 12.09.1994, ARS. – BOTSWANA: 1♁ (BMNH), Maun, R. Thamalakane, grazed <i>Setaria</i> grassland, 24.07.1977, ARS; 1&amp;female; (BMNH), same locality, swept <i>Miscanthidium</i> grassland, 28.06.1975, ARS; 1♁ (BMNH), same locality, in floodplain grassland, 1.02.1976, ARS; 1&amp;female; (BMNH), nr. Maun, Maphaneng Pan, riverine woodland, 1.04.1976, ARS; 2♁ (BMNH), c. 10 km S of Maun, Botetle, swept in riverine woodland, 5.03.1976, ARS; 1♁ (BMNH), Kwai North gate, Margin of muddy lagoon, 15.07.1978, ARS; 1♁ (BMNH), Okavango, R. Boro (KB B63), in <i>Hyparrhenia</i> grassland, 2.07.1977, ARS; 1♁ (BMNH), Okavango, island in R. Moanachira, in <i>Hyparrhenia</i> grassland, 14.07.1977, ARS; 1&amp;female; (BMNH), same locality, Moremi G.R., Mroma lagoon, in <i>Hyparrhenia</i> grassland, 13.08.1977, ARS; 1&amp;female; (BMNH), same locality, Moremi West Gate, <i>Vossia</i> swamp, 15.07.1978, ARS; 1&amp;female; (BMNH), same locality, R. Shashe, in floodplain grassland (hand collecting), 31.08.1975, ARS. <b>Comments.</b> To date, this species has been recorded from Ethiopia only (Logunov 2001; Weso&amp;lstrok;owska and Tomasiewicz 2008). New records here from Ivory Coast and Botswana significantly extend our knowledge on the distribution of <i>B. kovaczi</i>, which seems to be a common Afrotropical species. Males of <i>B. kovaczi</i> can easily be distinguished from the remaining <i>Bianor</i> species by the proportions of the tegulum and especially by the relatively large promarginal teeth of the chelicerae (see Weso&amp;lstrok;owska and Tomasiewicz 2008: fig. 14). The latter character varies to some extent, which is quite common in the Harmochireae (e.g., in <i>B. angulosus</i> or <i>Modunda staintoni</i>, see Logunov 2001), but remains more or less constant in all the males I have examined. Unfortunately, females of all African <i>Bianor</i> species cannot be reliably diagnosed by their copulatory organs; males are always required to identify a species.
description: Published as part of <i>Logunov, Dmitri, 2009, Further notes on the Harmochireae of Africa (Araneae, Salticidae, Pelleninae), pp. 265-290 in ZooKeys 16 (16)</i> on pages 271-272, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.16.227, http://zenodo.org/record/576485
description: {"references": ["Logunov DV (2001; for 2000) A redefinition of the genera Bianor Peckham &amp; Peckham, 1885 and Harmochirus Simon, 1885, with the establishment of a new genus Sibianor gen. n. (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 9 (4): 221 - 286.", "Wesolowska W. Tomasiewicz B (2008) New species and records of Ethiopian jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of afrotropical Zoology 4: 3 - 59."]}