Thyene ogdeni : Peckham &amp; Peckham 1903
Creators: name: Wesolowska, Wanda
name: Haddad, Charles R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Thyene
Thyene ogdeni

description: <i>Thyene ogdeni</i> Peckham &amp; Peckham, 1903 Figs 182–191, 232, 233, 251 <i>Thyene ogdeni</i>: Peckham &amp; Peckham 1903: 224, pl. 25, fig. 2; Lessert 1925 <i>a</i>: 488, fig. 73. Redescription: Measurements (male/female): Carapace length 3.6/3.7, width 3.1/3.1, height 1.7/1.6. Abdomen length 3.9/4.3, width 2.3/2.6. Eye field length 1.4/1.5, anterior width 2.0/2.1, posterior width 2.1/2.2. <i>Male.</i> General appearance in Figs 182, 232. Carapace oval, widest behind midpoint, light brown, darker at margins; eyes surrounded by black rings, some long brown bristles near anterior eyes; white scale-like hairs form transverse band on ocular area, behind anterior eyes and two streaks laterally from eye field; scattered white hairs on middle of thoracic part of carapace. Chelicerae and clypeus dark brown, labium and endites light brown with wide white tips; sternum whitish yellow. Abdomen elongate, narrow, yellowish medially, brownish laterally, with five pairs of black patches, between them small white spots (Fig. 182); brown hairs sparsely cover dorsum of abdomen; venter whitish with silver patches of translucent guanine crystals; spinnerets light. First pair of legs larger than others, tibia with three retrolateral and four prolateral spines ventrally, metatarsus with two pairs of spines ventrally; legs generally light brown; ventral and prolateral surface of first femur decorated with black transverse stripes (Fig. 182); coxae, trochanters and basal part of femora whitish; femora II–IV tinged with grey. Pedipalps dark yellow, white scales on palpal femur; tibia short, its apophysis armed with two very small teeth (Fig. 186); at base of the apophysis few short sharp bristles (Fig. 185); cymbium with row of thick sharp setae on retrolateral edge (Fig. 184); tegulum rounded with small protuberance near base of embolus; embolus long, encircling tegulum three times (Fig. 183). <i>Female.</i> General appearance in Figs 233, 251; similar to male but lighter coloured. Abdomen with wide yellow streak medially, with two brown lines lateral of the streak, cut in posterior part by small white patches (Fig. 187); sides orange brownish. Legs yellow, first femur with transverse bands formed by dark spots (Fig. 188). Epigyne typical for <i>Thyene</i>, very weakly sclerotised, rounded with shallow depression (Fig. 189). Seminal ducts form a few loops, receptacles multi-chambered, complex (Fig. 190, 191). Material examined: 1ơ Crocodile Farm, Pongola R. floodplain, 26 <i>°</i> 54.426'S: 32 <i>°</i> 19.185'E, <i>A. xanthophloea</i> bark, 6.vii.2006 (NMSA 21884); 1^Near pump, Pongola R. floodplain, 26 <i>°</i> 54.323'S: 32 <i>°</i> 19.435'E, riverine forest, beats, short shrubs, 27.vi.2006 (NCA 2006 /1216); 1^same data (NCA 2006 /1219); 1^Western shore of Shokwe Pan, 26 <i>°</i> 52.013'S: 32 <i>°</i> 12.982'E, <i>F. sycomorus</i> forest, beats, short shrubs, 4.xii.2000 (NMSA 21885). Distribution: Species known only from South Africa. Habitat and biology: This species was collected from the foliage of shrubs and short trees in full shade of RF and FF along the Pongola River and Shokwe Pan, respectively. A single specimen was collected from fever tree bark.
description: Published as part of <i>Wesolowska, Wanda &amp; Haddad, Charles R., 2009, Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa, pp. 13-103 in African Invertebrates 50 (1)</i> on pages 86-88
description: {"references": ["LESSERT, R. DE. 1925 a. Araignees du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 5. Salticidae. Revue suisse de Zoologie 31: 429 - 528."]}