Hispo alboguttata

Taxobox
name = "Hispo alboguttata"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Hisponinae
genus = "Hispo"
species = "H. alboguttata"
binomial = "Hispo alboguttata"
binomial_authority = Simon, 1903
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"Hispo alboguttata" is a spider species of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

The species is only known from one immature female described in 1903.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 273f]

Description

The cephalothorax is quite flat, the carapace rather elongate oval and slightly flared near the front. The whole carapace is orange, with a black fringe around the eyes. The yellow brown abdomen is long and narrow, rounded at the front, with long straight, slightly diverging sides that curve to a point near the spinnerets. Several round tufts of white hair are found in pairs. The first two leg pairs are enlarged with weak ventral spines. The legs are generally yellow, with black tinging at the first pair.

Distribution

While other species of "Hispo" are found from Africa to India along a Gondwanan line, "H. alboguttata" has been found only in Sumatra.

Name

The species name is derived from Latin "alboguttatus" "white spotted".

Footnotes

References

* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. "Malaysian Nature Society", Kuala Lumpur.
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".