Jumping spiders of the genus Icius Simon, 1876 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India, with a description of a new species

Abstract

Materials and methods Specimens were hand collected from tree bark. Live specimens were photographed by means of Nikon D90, 18-55 mm. Then the specimens were preserved in 70% ethanol and examined under a Leica S8APO stereoscopic microscope. Micro-photographs were obtained by means of a Leica MC120 HD camera attached to the stereoscopic microscope, with the LAS core software package. All measurements are in millimeters. Leg measurements are given as follows: total length (femur, patella, tibia, metatarsus, tarsus). The description of colour characters is based on fresh specimens. Leg spination pattern follows Davies [1994]. Type specimens are deposited in the

New chrysilline and aelurilline jumping spiders from Pakistan (Araneae, Salticidae)

“…This accompanies the ongoing work in neighbouring India (Caleb 2016, 2017; Caleb and Mathai 2015, 2017; Caleb et al 2015, 2017a, 2017b; Chatterjee et al 2017; Kananbala et al 2014; Prajapati et al 2016; Sanap et al 2017; Sebastian et al 2015; Vidhel et al 2015) in building our knowledge of South Asian salticids.…”

A new species of the jumping spider genus Icius Simon, 1876 from India (Aranei: Salticidae: Chrysillini)

“…DIAGNOSIS. The new species is most similar to I. kumariae, but it can be easily distinguished from it by the following characters: the short, stout and flattened embolus having a uniform thickness (Figs 6, 13) (embolus long, apically narrowed and bent in I. kumariae; see figs 10 and 16 in Caleb [2017]); the tri-pronged retrolateral tibial apophysis with a broad base in the male (Figs 5, 13-15) (two retrolateral tibial apophysis in I. kumariae, see figs 10-12 and 16-17 in Caleb, [2017]); a pair of prominent sclerotized pockets situated at the posterior-lateral margin of the epigyne in the female (Figs 10, 16 Figs 1-6). Prosoma pear-shaped, brownish, with a thin white marginal stripes of uniform thickness; anterio-lateral sides of prosoma with whitish hairs.…”

“…Chelicerae with two promarginal and one retromarginal teeth (which can be also visible in I. kumariae, see fig. 9 in Caleb [2017]); fangs moderate in length, yellowish brown (Fig. 4).…”

“…Icius alboterminus (Caleb, 2014) and I. kumariae Caleb, 2017 were recently described from both sexes from India [Caleb, 2014[Caleb, , 2017. I. alboterminus was originally described in the genus Phintella Strand, in Bösenberg et Strand, 1906 and then transferred to Icius [Caleb, 2017]. In present paper we aim to describe a new species Icius vikrambatrai sp.n.…”

“…27.4.08 Introduction A total of 35 valid species has been known worldwide in the genus Icius Simon, 1876 [WSC, 2018], of which seven have been recorded/described from south and south-east Asia: viz., one species is known from Afghanistan, three from China, one from Indonesia and two from India. Icius alboterminus (Caleb, 2014) and I. kumariae Caleb, 2017 were recently described from both sexes from India [Caleb, 2014[Caleb, , 2017. I. alboterminus was originally described in the genus Phintella Strand, in Bösenberg et Strand, 1906 and then transferred to Icius [Caleb, 2017].…”