Journal of Threatened Taxa |
www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 May 2023 | 15(5): 23276–23278
ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) | ISSN 0974-7893
(Print)
https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.8463.15.5.23276-23278
#8463 | Received 31 March 2023 | Final
received 10 May 2023 | Finally accepted 17 May 2023
New distribution records of two jumping spiders (Araneae:
Salticidae) from Gujarat, India
Subhash Parmar 1
& Dhruv A. Prajapati 2
1,2 Web of Nature (WON)
Research Foundation, Nisarg dreams, Shilaj, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380058, India.
1 parmarsubhash329@gmail.com,
2 dhruvspidy215@gmail.com (corresponding author)
Editor: John T.D. Caleb, SIMATS, Saveetha
University, Chennai, India. Date of
publication: 26 May 2023 (online & print)
Citation: Parmar, S. & D.A. Prajapati (2023). New distribution records of two
jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)
from Gujarat, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 15(5): 23276–23278. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.8463.15.5.23276-23278
Copyright: © Parmar & Prajapati 2023. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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Funding: Crowdfunding.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Acknowledgements: We are also thankful
to Mrs Priyal Patel (WON Research Foundation,
Ahmedabad) for her generous help in preparation of images.
Indian Plexippini is represented by 18 genera and 56 species
(Maddison 2015; Caleb & Sankaran 2023). Of these, seven genera are reported
from Gujarat State: Epeus Peckham & Peckham, Bianor Peckham & Peckham, Harmochirus
Simon, Hyllus C.L.Koch, Plexippus
C.L.Koch, Telamonia
Thorell and Thyene
Simon (Prajapati et al. 2016; Yadav et al. 2017). During recent surveys in
Aravalli Hills, we identified two more plexippine
jumping spider species which are new to Gujarat State. The present paper thus
deals with the discovery and record of two species—Vailimia
ajmerensis Caleb & Jangid,
2020 and Modunda staintoni
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)—for the first time from the Aravalli Hills in
Gujarat, India.
The specimens were
hand collected and studied under a Leica M205 A stereomicroscope and the
microphotographic images were taken by a Leica DFC2900 digital camera attached
to the stereomicroscope and enabled with the software package Leica Application
Suite (LAS), version 4.5.0. Left pedipalps were removed, studied and were
photographed by placing them in a cavity block filled with ethanol. The species
were identified by using Logunov (2001) and Basumatary et
al. (2020). The examined specimens have been deposited in the reference
collection of the Web of Nature (WON) Research Foundation, Gujarat, India.
Family Salticidae Blackwall, 1841
Genus Modunda Simon, 1901
Type species: Modunda phragmitis Simon,
1901
Modunda staintoni
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
Image 1, 4–5
Salticus staintoni
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 331, pl. 14, fig. 20
Modunda staintoni
Logunov, 2001: 277, figs.
347–366.
Material examined:
WON100351, 21.v.2021, 1 male, India, Gujarat, Danta
Village (24.191668°N, 77.7706°E), 777 m, from foliage, leg. S. Parmar.
Diagnosis: The
species can be easily distinguished by the following characters: male pedipalp
with rounded bulb; embolus long and slender, surrounding the bulb; Retrolateral tibial apophysis (RTA) robust, slightly curved (Image 4–5).
Distribution in
India: Punjab (Logunov 2001) and Gujarat (new record)
(Figure 1).
Genus Vailimia Kammerer, 2006
Type species: Vailima masinei G.W.Peckham & E.G.Peckham,
1907.
Vailimia ajmerensis Caleb & Jangid, 2020
Image 2–3, 6–7
Vailimia ajmerensis Caleb & Jangid, in Basumatary et al.
2020: 180, figs. 1–11.
Material examined:
WON100639, 21.v.2021, 1 male, India, Gujarat, Danta
Village (24.191667°N, 77.7707°E), 777 m, from foliage, leg. S. Parmar.
Diagnosis: The
species can be easily distinguished by the following characters: male pedipalp
with long embolus, its base thick and broad and the tip narrowed, directed at 2
o’clock position (Image 6); RTA long and simple, broad at the base and tapered
at the tip, with a slight curve distally (Image7).
Distribution:
Rajasthan (Basumatary et al. 2020) and Gujarat (new
record) (Figure 1).
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