Zygoballus tibialis

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Zygoballus tibialis
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Male
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Zygoballus
Species:
Z. tibialis
Binomial name
Zygoballus tibialis

Zygoballus tibialis is a species of jumping spider native to Central America. It was first described by the arachnologist Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. [1] [2] The type specimens are housed at the Natural History Museum in London. [3]

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The species has been collected from Mexico (Chiapas), [4] Guatemala, [2] Costa Rica, [5] and possibly Panama. [6]

Description

Pedipalp of the male holotype Zygoballus tibialis holotype pedipalp ventral with scale.jpg
Pedipalp of the male holotype

According to the arachnologist Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, males are approximately 3 mm in body length, while females are approximately 4 mm. [2] The male can be distinguished from other Central American Zygoballus by its large tibial apophysis (or "spur") on the pedipalp. In the male, the first pair of legs and the pedipalps are black while the other legs are yellow. In the female, the legs are annulated with black at the apex of the segments, and the abdomen has a pattern of white spots and bands. The female can be distinguished from closely related species by the shape of the epigyne. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Taxon details Zygoballus tibialis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Pickard-Cambridge, Frederick Octavius (1901). Arachnida - Volume II: Araneidea and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana . London: Dulau & Co. p. 292.
  3. Prószyński, Jerzy (April 28, 2013). "Zygoballus tibialis Pickard-Cambridge F., 1901". Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2014-09-27.
  4. Ibarra-Núñez, Guillermo; Maya-Morales, Julieta; Chamé-Vázquez, David (2011). "Spiders of the cloud montane forest of the Biosphere Reserve Volcán Tacaná, Chiapas, Mexico". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. 82: 1183–1193.
  5. Banks, Nathan (1909). "Arachnida from Costa Rica". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 61 (2): 224.
  6. Chickering, Arthur M. (September 1946). "The Salticidae (Spiders) of Panama". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 97: 404.