Malizna zabkai sp. nov.

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Fig. 33

Diagnosis

This species is similar to Malizna admirabilis Wesołowska, 2021 . It differs in the abdomen pattern (compare Fig. 33A with Wesołowska 2021: figs 56–57), the absence of epigynal pockets (present in M. admirabilis) and by the seminal ducts, which are straight in M. admirabilis but coiled in this newly described species.

Etymology

This species is named after a friend of the first author, Marek Żabka, the famous Polish arachnologist and specialist in Australian salticids.

Material examined

Holotype IVORY COAST • ♀; Lamto; 2 Dec. 1975; “forêt de marigot salé, sur branches”; MNHN.

Description

Male

Unknown.

Female

MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 1.7, width 1.2, height 0.9. Eye field length 0.8, anterior width 1.1, posterior width 1.0. Abdomen length 1.7, width 1.3. General appearance as in Fig. 33A–B. Small thiratoscirtine spider.

CARAPACE. High, abruptly sloping posteriorly, dark brown with thin, lighter median streak on thoracic part, eye field black. Thin dense brown hairs on carapace, especially dense on eye field, anterior median eyes encircled by yellowish grey scales. Chelicerae unidentate, light brown, sternum and mouthparts yellow.

ABDOMEN. Oval, greyish beige with median serrated streak, covered with brown hairs, venter yellowish. Spinnerets yellow with dark lateral lines.

LEGS. Light brown, femora slightly darker. Four pairs of ventral spines on tibia I, two pairs on metatarsus. Palp with two retrolateral spines (Fig. 33C).

EPIGYNE. With V-shaped posterior edge (Fig. 33D), and shrunken scapus clothed in long dense hairs. Internal structure as in Fig. 33E, seminal ducts weakly sclerotized in initial part, forming a loop.

Distribution

Only known from the type locality, Lamto, Ivory Coast.