Parafluda banksi Chickering 1946
Creators: name: Hagopián, Damián
name: Bustamante, Abel A.
name: Laborda, Álvaro
name: Simó, Miguel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Parafluda
Parafluda banksi

description: Parafluda banksi Chickering, 1946
Figs 29–33
Parafluda banksi Chickering, 1946: 456 (male holotype from Panama, El Valle [Valle de Antón], [8°37′12″ N, 80°07′48″ W], deposited in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), USA, not examined).
Sarinda albianus Mello-Leitão, 1947: 29 (male holotype from Carmo do Rio Claro, Minas Gerais, Brazil deposited in MNRJ 2185, destroyed by the fire, not examined. Synonymized by Galiano 1965: 292).
Parafluda banksi – Prószyński 2017: 61, fig. 27v. — Pett et al. 2021: 927, fig. 7h–i. — World Spider Catalog 2023.
Diagnosis and description
See Chickering (1946) and Galiano (1971). Here, we include color photographs of preserved and living specimens to complement the descriptions (Figs 29–32).
New records
URUGUAY – Canelones • 1 ♂; INIA, Las Brujas; 34.66236° S, 56.33886° W; 2 Feb. 2005; M. Simó leg.; FCE-Ar 3080 • 1 ♂; same locality as for preceding; 27 Dec. 2004; M. Simó leg.; FCE-Ar 3147 • 1 ♂; San Ramón; 34.29007° S, 55.95536° W; 21 Oct. 2018; R. Lauría leg.; in dry grass; FCE-Ar 9563 • 1 ♂; Las Toscas; 34.76639° S, 55.73972° W; 3 Nov. 2019; P. Martínez leg.; inside house; FCEAr 10513. – Cerro Largo • 1 ♀; Arévalo, Oficina UPM; 32.63611° S, 55.07194° W; 1 Nov. 2019; D. Hagopián and Á. Laborda leg.; in fallen bark in grassland; FCE-Ar 12125. – Durazno • 1 ♀; Santa Bernardina; 33.35164° S, 56.51121° W; D. Hagopián leg.; under cardboard in the grass; FCE-Ar 9509 • 1 ♂; La Paloma; 32.72745° S, 55.57797° W; 24 Oct. 2021; Á. Laborda leg.; under piece of wood in garden; FCE-Ar 11094. – Lavalleja • 1 ♂; Cerro de los Cuervos; 34.27125° S, 55.24791° W; 22 Dec. 2003; Simó and Pérez-Miles leg.; FCE-Ar 9713. – Maldonado • 1 ♂; Punta Negra; 34.88267° S, 55.22058° W; 5 Nov. 2018; R. Roibal leg.; FCE-Ar 9614. – Montevideo • 1 ♂; Barrio Malvín Norte, Facultad de Ciencias; 34.88239° S, 56.11824° W; 4 Oct. 2008, M. Simó leg; pitfall; FCE-Ar 4640 • 1 ♂; Cerro de Montevideo; 34.88869° S, 56.26094° W; 23 Nov. 1998; Sección Entomología leg.; FCE-Ar 7897 • 1 ♀; same locality as for preceding; 20 Dec. 1997; Sección Entomología leg.; FCE-Ar 5945 • 1 ♂; Melilla; 34.73261° S, 56.32110° W; 17 Nov. 2017; D. Hagopián leg.; FCE-Ar 9575; • 1 ♂; same locality as for preceding; 11 Aug. 2018; D. Hagopián leg.; under metal tank in grass; FCE-Ar 9377 • 1 ♀; same locality as for preceding; 30 Sep. 2018; D. Hagopián leg.; under metal tank in grass; FCE-Ar 9558. – Paysandú • 1 ♀; Rincón de Pérez; 32.17530° S, 57.51699° W; 18 Mar. 2004; Á. Laborda and M. Castro leg.; entomological net in grassland; FCE-Ar 4833. – Rocha • 1 ♀; 12 km from Castillos; 34.09417° S, 53.87166° W; 6 Apr. 2017; Á. Laborda leg.; in Eryngium sp.; FCE-Ar 9542.
Distribution
Known from Argentina (Buenos Aires), Brazil (Minas Gerais), Panamá (El Valle) and Paraguay (Ñeembucú) (Chickering 1946; Galiano 1965, 1971; Pett et al. 2021; World Spider Catalog 2023). Here, we report the first records of the species from Uruguay (Canelones, Cerro Largo, Durazno, Maldonado, Montevideo, Paysandú and Rocha) (Fig. 33).
description: Published as part of Hagopián, Damián, Bustamante, Abel A., Laborda, Álvaro & Simó, Miguel, 2024, Two new species of Sarinda Peckham & Peckham, 1892, with an update on Sarindini in Uruguay (Araneae: Salticidae), pp. 100-134 in European Journal of Taxonomy 925 (1) on pages 128-131, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.925.2455, http://zenodo.org/record/10804069