Parajotus refulgens Wesolowska 2000
Creators: name: Wesołowska, Wanda
name: Russell-Smith, Anthony
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Parajotus
Parajotus refulgens

description: Parajotus refulgens Wesołowska, 2000
Fig. 42
Parajotus refulgens Wesołowska, 2000: 160, figs 47–51.
Parajotus refulgens – Wesołowska 2011: 333, figs 65–68, 92–93. — Wesołowska & Russell-Smith 2011: 589.
Material examined
IVORY COAST • 7 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀; Lamto, Bandama Forest; 3–4 Dec. 1975; “sur branches”; MNHN • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 7 Oct. 1975; “petite savane incluse dans le forêt Bandama”; MNHN • 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 29 Sep. 1975; “sur branches hautes”; MNHN • 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 27 Oct. 1975; “sur branches”; MNHN • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 1 Sep. 1975; MNHN • 4 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 27 Nov. 1975; MNHN • 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 17 Aug. 1975; MNHN • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 21 Aug. 1975; “forêt galerie, sous-bois, sur branches”; MNHN • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; “lisière, sur branches”; MNHN • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 8 Dec. 1975; “virage glissant, sur branches”; MNHN • 3 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 9 Aug. 1974; “sur branches”; MNHN • 3 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 18 Sep. 1975; “bosquet de savane, sur branches”; MNHN • 2 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 2 Dec. 1975; “forêt de marigot salé, sur branches”; MNHN • 5 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 25 Aug. 1975; “sur branches en sous-bois”; MNHN • 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; “sur branches au soleil”; MNHN • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 23–24 Dec. 1975; “savane vers Zougoussi, tête de roniers”; MNHN • 3 ♀♀; same collection data as for preceding; 11 Sep. 1975; “savane non-brulée, aux environs de la station, branches”; MNHN • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 29 Oct. 1975; “base des herbes”; MNHN • 4 ♂♂; same collection data as for preceding; 15 Aug. 1975; “buissons et lisière”; MNHN.
Description
See Wesołowska (1999). Frontal view of male as in Fig. 42A. General appearance of female as in Fig. 42B, epigyne as in Fig. 42C–E.
Remarks
This species was known from southernAfrica.Recently, the male was also found in Nigeria (Wesołowska& Russell-Smith 2011). Females from Ivory Coast differ slightly in the course of the seminal ducts which are more bent than in those from Zimbabwe (compare Fig. 42C–E with Wesołowska 2000: figs 50–51)
but the male palp is identical in both populations. Further studies will elucidate the possible specific differences in South and West African specimens.
Biology
This was one of the most abundant salticid species from Lamto. It was found most frequently on bushes and trees in forest (80% of specimens) and only occasionally in savannah habitats (20%).
Distribution
Previously known from Nigeria, Congo, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
description: Published as part of Wesołowska, Wanda & Russell-Smith, Anthony, 2022, Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J. - C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae), pp. 1-143 in European Journal of Taxonomy 841 (1) on pages 72-74, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943, http://zenodo.org/record/7195354