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| Noegus sombrerovueltiao Suárez-Martínez & Bedoya-Roqueme, in Suárez-Martínez, Bedoya-Roqueme et Quirós-Rodríguez, 2025. |
Abstract
A new salticid species of the genus Noegus Simon 1900 is described herein as N. sombrerovueltiao sp. nov. (♂♀), found in the dry forest of the Córdoba department in northwestern Colombia. Photographs and illustrations of the diagnostic characters for males and females and ecological comments are provided. Distribution maps and habitat photographs are also included.
Keywords: Arachnida, dry forest, Neotropics, taxonomy, zoogeography
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| Noegus sombrerovueltiao sp. nov. Female paratype (1, 2), views of a specimen in life from Momil, Mata de Caña; male holotype (3, 4), views of a specimen in life from Momil, Córdoba department, Colombian Caribbean. |
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| Habitus Noegus sombrerovueltiao sp. nov. Male holotype (5, 6); female paratype (7, 8). 5, 7, dorsal view; 6, 8 ventral view. Scales = 2.0 mm. |
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| Male holotype of Noegus sombrerovueltiao sp. nov. 13, palp in ventral view; 14, palp in dorsal view; 15, palp in prolateral view; 16, palp in retrolateral view. Scales = 0.5 mm. |
Taxonomy
Family Salticidae Blackwall 1841
Subfamily Salticinae Blackwall 1841
Tribe Amycini F.O. Pickard-Cambridge 1900
Genus Noegus Simon 1900
Type species: Noegus vulpio Simon 1900
Noegus sombrerovueltiao Suárez-Martínez &
Bedoya-Roqueme sp. nov.
Etymology. The specific epithet “sombrerovueltiao” is
in homage to the “Sombrero Vueltiao”, a piece of clothing
(hat) autochthonous of the region where the specimens were
collected, whose design of lines turning around is similar to
the turns that the embolus makes around the pedipalp of the
male.
Leiner A. Suárez-Martínez, Edwin Bedoya-Roqueme and Jorge A. Quirós-Rodríguez. 2025. A New Species of Jumping Spider of the Genus Noegus Simon 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycini) from Colombia. Acta Arachnologica. 74(1); 9-18. DOI: doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.74.9
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