Pseudeuophrys Dahl 1912
Creators: name: Prószyński, Jerzy
name: Lissner, Jørgen
name: Schäfer, Michael
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Pseudeuophrys

description: Gen. Pseudeuophrys Dahl, 1912   
Figures 23-25  
 Type species. Pseudeuophrys erratica (Walckenaer, 1826).   
 Documentation studied. Literature data, especially diagnostic drawing, and macrophotographs, preliminarily collected in Prószyński (2016a) - http://www.peckhamia.com/salticidae/q10-Pseudeuo.html), complemented by the newest data.   
 Diagnosis. Resembling Euophrys (see above), from which differs by coil of embolus hidden behind anterior edge of bulbus, with only tip of embolus protruding, or by higher anterior part of the embolus coil, which makes central space, inside of embolus coil, looking depressed within coil of embolus (Figs 22F, 25). Spermathecae elongate oval, or bean shaped, often slightly constricted, with copulatory ducts relatively broad, running transversally, but in P. iwatensis anterior-ward (Figs 25B 1) (in Euophrys and Talavera spermathecae are ball shaped, with ducts distinctly thinner, running anteriorly (Figs 22C 1, 27B, H, L, 28, 29).   
 Description. Small spiders of average body shape, recognizable by coloration (Figs 23-24), by palps and internal structure of epigyne (Figs 22, 25, see also - http://www.peckhamia.com/salticidae/q10- Pseudeuo.html). In difference to Euophrys, dorsal color pattern in males is richer and consists of white scales contrasting with background of brown or blackish scales (with reddish or golden hue). White scales on abdomen may be either concentrated into pairs of small spots, or discrete short white lines dorso-marginally (Figs 23 A-D), they may also form less dense white assemblages along median abdominal streak (consisting of diamonds and bars), on eye field and on dorsal surface of thorax (Figs 23 E-H). Comparable patterns occur in females (Fig. 24). After color scales are rub off, bald, black, tegument is left. Frontal color pattern is comparable with Euophrys, but less flamboyant (compare Figs 23 with those on Fig. 4 G-J), in females even more subdued (Fig. 24).   
 Composition. Type species: Pseudeuophrys erratica (Walckenaer, 1826) (Figs 22C, F, 23 A-B, 24A, 25A-A1). Other species included are: P. iwatensis (Bohdanowicz & Prószyński, 1987) (Figs 22C, F, 25 B-B1), P. lanigera (Simon, 1871) (Figs 22C, F, 23H, 24B, 25E), P. nebrodensis Alicata & Cantarella, 2000 (Figs 25H), P. obsoleta (Simon, 1868) (Figs 22C, F, 23 C-D, 24C, 25C, P. pascualis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Fig. 25D), P. perdifumo van Helsdingen, 2015 (Figs 25 I-K, N-P), P. talassica (Logunov, 1997) - comb. n., (Fig. 25F), P. vafra (Blackwall, 1867) (Figs 22C, F, 2 3 E-F, 2 4D, 2 5G, L-M). 9 species.   
 Catalogue of Pseudeuophrys (as Euophrys) specimens kept in major collection of the world is given by Prószyński (1971: 404-408).
description: Published as part of Prószyński, Jerzy, Lissner, Jørgen & Schäfer, Michael, 2018, Taxonomic survey of the genera Euophrys, Pseudeuophrys and Talavera, with description of Euochin gen. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) and with proposals of a new research protocol *, pp. 26-74 in Ecologica Montenegrina 18 on page 60, DOI: 10.37828/em.2018.18.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13360279