Cytaea haematica Simon 1902
Creators: name: Patoleta, Barbara M.
name: Trębicki, Łukasz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Cytaea
Cytaea haematica

description: Cytaea haematica Simon, 1902
Figs 43–55
Cytaea haematica Simon, 1902: 393 (male holotype from Palabuan, Lombok, Fruhstorfer, MNHN 20340, examined); World Spider Catalog 2015.
C. whytei Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 (male holotype and female paratype from Samokat, Sumbawa Besar, secondary forest, 1–9 January 1990, S. Djojosudharmo leg., CDML, examined); World Spider Catalog 2015, new synonymy.
Note: Synonymy proposed on the basis of detailed study of type material (Figs 43–55).
Diagnosis. Similar to C. taveuniensis Patoleta & Gardzińska, 2010 for having a protuberance on embolic base, but differs from the latter in the smaller size of the protuberance, tegulum relatively slender and longer embolus coiled in more than one circle (Figs 49, 55).
Redescription. Male (holotype). Cephalothorax brown, covered with brown and white scales, forming two wide stripes on the sides (Figs 43, 45, 52–53), with many light reflecting scales. Eyes surroundings black. Eye field wider than long, trapezoid, its length 41% of CL. PME halfway between PLE and ALE. Fovea short, located between PLE. Abdomen elongate, pale, covered with sparse brown hairs and numerous iridescent and brown scales (Figs 43, 52). Spinnerets pale-yellow. Clypeus light-brown, narrower (32%) than AME diameter (Fig. 46), covered with long, iridescent scales. Chelicerae vertical, light-brown, elongated, with papillate anterior surface, covered with sparse iridescent scales (Fig. 46). Promargin with four teeth, retromarginal tooth bicuspidate (Fig. 47). Endites and labium not distinctive, light-brown, with yellowish chewing margins. Sternum longer than wide, pale (Fig. 44). Venter pale, with darker patch at the posterior part. Pedipalps light-brown (Figs 48–51, 54–55), femur with 1-1-1 dorsal spines, tibia with numerous iridescent scales. Embolus coiled, making one and a half revolutions. RTA of medium length, hooked apically, with distal notch (Figs 48, 50–51, 54). Legs I brown, coxae–patellae ventrally slightly lighter; spination: fI: dorsal 1-1-4; pI: prolateral 1, retrolateral 1; tI: dorsal 1-1, prolateral 1-1, retrolateral 1- 1, ventral 2-2-2; mI: prolateral 1-1, retrolateral 1-1, ventral 2-2. Other legs light brown, lighter ventrally, with numerous spines. Leg formula: I-III-II-IV. Dimensions. CL 2.58, CW 1.91, CH 1.43, AL 2.31, AW 1.30, EFL 1.07, AEW 1.92, PEW 1.54, leg I: 7.01 (1.93 + 1.08 + 1.83 + 1.56 + 0.61), leg II: 5.66 (1.74 + 0.88 + 1.26 + 1.26 + 0.52), leg III: 5.91 (1.97 + 0.86 + 1.04 + 1.53 + 0.51), leg IV: 5.53 (1.70 + 0.67 + 1.18 + 1.50 + 0.48).
Female. See Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold (2010, as C. whytei). Here we present only the figure of general appearance to complete the documentation (Fig. 53).
description: Published as part of Patoleta, Barbara M. & Trębicki, Łukasz, 2015, Redescription of some poorly known species of Cytaea Keyserling, 1882 (Araneae: Salticidae), with new synonymies, pp. 555-566 in Zootaxa 3949 (4) on pages 561-565, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3949.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/236157