Gambaquezonia

Gambaquezonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Gambaquezonia
Barrion & Litsinger, 1995
Species: G. itimana
Binomial name
Gambaquezonia itimana
Barrion & Litsinger, 1995
Diversity
1 species

Gambaquezonia is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). It was first described in some detail by Barrion & Litsinger (1995) from the female holotype, the only known specimen at the time. Its general appearance was later redescribed by Murphy and Murphy (2000).[1] Its single species, described from a single collected female[2] was found in rice fields of Luzon Island on the Philippines.

Description

G. itimana is a long green jumping spider, similar and probably related to Orthrus and Asemonea. The female is 6 mm long. The carapace is pale yellow, with a black band surrounding the eyes and reaching to the rear margin. The yellow abdomen features some longitudinal grey stripes and a wide black band, followed by two lateral black spots. The legs are yellow, with dark stripes on some segments.[2]

The female has several unusual morphological features, including a large number of ventral macrosetae on legs I and II, prominent sparse rows of elongate setae on the dorsum, a multi-cusped retromarginal tooth, and an epigynum, superficially this looks like a euophryine, but is quite different structurally.[3]

Footnotes

  1. Edwards, G.B. (2009) 'Males of Gambaquezonia itimana (Araneae, Salticidae), with Notes on Females', Journal of Anachronology
  2. 1 2 Murphy & Murphy 2000: 292f
  3. Edwards, G.B. (2009) 'Males of Gambaquezonia itimana (Araneae, Salticidae), with Notes on Females', Journal of Anachronology

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