Chalcoscirtus carbonarius Emerton
Creators: name: Bruce Cutler
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1990
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Chalcoscirtus
Chalcoscirtus carbonarius

description: Chalcoscirtus carbonarius Emerton (Figs. 4, 13-17, Map 1)
Chalcoscirtus carbonarius Emerton, 1917: 271, fig. 23 (♂ ♀),
holotype male from “ Simpson Summit, Banff ”, Alberta.
Chalcoscirtus carbonarius: Swann & Robey, 1975: 101 -104, figs. 1 - 10
(♂, ♀)-
Diagnosis: Males can be distinguished easily by the forked tibial apophysis (Fig. 15). The elongated copulatory tubes with a double curve are diagnostic of the female (Fig. 17).
Male from Canada: Alberta: Waterton Lakes Natl. Park, Carthew Lakes, 1980-2200m, 27 July 1953, HWL (MCZ). Total length 2.7. Carapace 1.30 long, 0.90 wide. Eyeﬁeld 0.63 long. Eyerow I 0.94 wide, eyerow III 0.89 wide. Diameter median eyes row I 0.27, laterals row I 0.18, row II eyes 0.03, row III eyes 0.15. Distance eyerow II from eyerow I 0.17, eyerow II from eyerow III 0.15. Femur lengths leg I 0.73, II 0.67, III 0.73, IV 0.80. Leg order 4312. Opisthosoma 1.5 long, 0.9 wide. Chelicerae with 2 promarginal teeth, retromarginal teeth absent. Ventral spination: leg I metatarsus 2 serial each retrolateral and prolateral; tibia 3 serial each retrolateral and prolateral: leg II as leg I. Colour as in C. alpicola, but all tarsi dark yellow. Carapace width in 7 males, mean 0.65, range 0.58-0.70.
Female, same locality as male: Total length 3.4. Carapace 1.50 long, 1.07 wide. Eyeﬁeld 0.65 long. Eyerow I 1.04 wide, eyerow III 1.02 wide. Diameter median eyes row I 0.29, laterals row I 0.20, row II eyes 0.03, row III eyes 0.17. Distance eyerow II from eyerow I 0.18, eyerow II from eyerow III 0.17. Femur lengths leg I 0.75, II 0.73, III 0.82, IV 1.00. Leg order 4312. Opisthosoma 2.0 long, 1.2 wide. Chelicerae as in male. Ventral leg spination: leg I as in male, but leg II tibia lacking prolateral, proximal spine. Colour as in female C. alpicola, but legs all brown. Carapace width in 40 females, mean 0.76, range 0.62-0.85.
Material examined: CANADA: Alberta: Banff, Simpson Summit, 27 July 1916, N. B. Ganson, Emerton det. 1917 (6 ♀ ♀, MCZ); Jasper National Park, Mt Edith Cavell, 16 July 1981, C. D. Dondale, under stones (5 ♀ ♀, CNC); lodge, 118° 02 ’ W, 52° 41 ' N, 24 August 1965, Jean & Wilton Ivie (1 ♂, 1 ♀, AMNH); Waterton Lakes National Park, Carthew lakes, 1980-2200m, 27 July 1953, Levi, under stones (3 ♂♂, 21 ♀♀, 1 imm. ♂; MCZ); Alberta [no locality given] (1 ♀, AMNH); Yukon Territory: Dempster highway, km 132, 22 June 1981, C. D. Dondale, tundra and stony mountainside (2 ♀ ♀; CNC). U. S.A.: Alaska: Nunatuk [probably the Nunatuk Mt. in the St Elias Range 139° 02 ' W, 59° 49 ’ N], 12 July 1949, Peter Wood (1 ♀; AMNH); Southeastern District, T3N, R5E, s. 28, NE¼: (144° 30 ' W, 62° 01 ' N), 1375 m, Mt Wrangell, Dadina Drainage, 20 July 1978, R. Saltmarch, under rocks in rock slide (4 ♀ ♀; BC); Montana: Fergus Co., Big Snowie Mts, 2600 m, 5 August 1961, B. Vogel (4 ♀ ♀; AMNH); Glacier National Park, Cracker Lake, 1830 m, 16 July 1953, rocks, Levi (1 ♂ —— missing, 1 ♀; AMNH); Cut Bank Pass, 2320 m, 15 August 1953, Levi (1 ♀; AMNH); Dawson Pass, 2290 m, 11 August 1953, Levi (1 ♂, 1 ♀; AMNH). Two additional records of immature Chalcoscirtus unable to be placed to species are: CANADA: North- west Territories: District of Mackenzie, Aklavik, 30 June 1956, R. E. Leech (CNC); Yukon Territory: 19 km SE of Beaver Creek Town, 140° 42 ' W, 62° 16 ’ N, 9 August 1968, W. Ivie (AMNH). Acknowledgements I should like to thank the following for providing information, specimens and access to material in collec- tions under their care, acronyms for collections follow names: Dr C. D. Dondale, Canadian National Collec- tion, Ottawa (CNC); Dr H. W. Levi, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (MCZ); Mr W. Maddison, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (WM); Dr Y Marusik, IBPN, Magadan, U. S. S. R.; Dr N. Platnick, The American Museum of Natural History, New York (AMNH); Dr J. Proszyﬁski, WSRP, Siedlce, Poland; Dr R. M. Reeves, University of New Hampshire (RMR); Dr K. Thaler, Innsbruck, Austria; specimens in my collection are designated BC. References BANKS, N. 1896: A few new spiders. Can. Ent.. 28: 62-65. BONNET, P. 1956: Bibliographia Araneorum 2 (2): 919-1926. Toulouse. EMERTON, J. H. 1909: Supplement to the New England spiders. Trans. Conn.Acad. Arts Sci. 14: 171 -236, 12 plates. EMERTON, J. H. 1917: New spiders from Canada and the adjoining states. Can. Ent. 49: 261-272. KOCH, L. 1876: Verzeichnis der in Tirol bis jetzt beobachteten Arachniden. Z. Ferdinand. Tirol (3) 20: 219-354. OVTSHARENKO, V. I. 1978: Spiders of the family Salticidae (Aranei) from the greater Caucasus. Ent. Rev., Wash. 57: 469-472. PECKHAM, G. W. & PECKI-IAM, E. G. 1909: Attidae of North America. Trans. Wis.Acad. Sci. Arts Lett. 16: 355 -646. PRÓSZYÑSKI, J. 1982: Salticidae (Araneae) from Mongolia. Annls hist. - nat. Mus. natn. hung. 74: 273-294. PRÓSZYÑSKI, J. 1987: Atlas rysunkow diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticídae 2. WSRP, Siedlce, Poland. SWANN, P. & ROBEY, C. 1975: A redescription of the North American jumping spider Chalcoscirtus carbonarius Emerton, 1917. Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 3: 101 -104. THALER, K. 1981: Bemerkenswerte Spinnenfunde in Nordtirol (Österreich). Veröff. Mus. Ferdinandeum Innsb. 61: 105- 150. ZABKA, M. 1980: Salticidae from the Nepal Himalayas. Chalcoscirtus Bertkau 1880 and Euophrys C. L. Koch 1834 (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenberg. biol. 60: 359-369. ZABKA, M. 1981: Salticidae from Kashmir and Ladakh (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenberg. biol. 61: 407-413.
description: Published as part of Bruce Cutler, 1990, A revision of the western hemisphere Chalcoscirtus (Araneae: Salticidae), pp. 105-108 in Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8 on page 107