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Description. Male (the holotype). Measurements. Carapace 1.33 long, 1.15 wide, 0.70 high at PLE. Ocular area 0.98 long, 1.03 wide anteriorly and 1.18 wide posteriorly. Diameter of AME 0.35. Abdomen 1.28 long, 0.95 wide. Cheliceral length 0.45. Clypeal height 0.05. Length of leg segments: leg I- 0.93+0.50+0.65+0.48+0.50; leg II- 0.60+0.36+0.33+0.33+0.26; leg III- 0.68+0.35+0.31+0.38+0.30; leg IV- 0.70+0.35+0.38+0.45+0.33. Leg spination. Leg I: Tb v 1-2-2ap; Mt v 2-2ap. Leg II: Fm d 1ap; Tb pr 0-1, v 1-1; Mt v 2-2ap. Leg III: Fm d 2ap; Tb pr and rt 0-1-0, v 1ap; Mt pr, rt and v 1ap. Leg IV: Fm d 1ap; Tb rt 0-1-0; Mt rt 1ap. Colouration. Carapace russet, shining, with black around eyes; eye field of the same colour as the rest of carapace (Figs 24-25). Clypeus russet, with sparse long white hairs forming a triangle and overhanging the chelicerae. Sternum yellowish-brownish. Maxillae, labium and chelicerae russet. Abdomen greyish-yellowish; dorsum, entirely covered with brownish shining scutum and with a pair of transverse white spots (sometimes poorly marked; Fig. 24). Book-lung covers and spinnerets yellow, slightly tinged with brown. All legs yellow, with no brown rings, but tibiae I and the basal half of tarsi I brownish (Fig. 26). Palps yellow to brownish, but cymbium always yellow; palpal structure as in Figs 29-30.
Female. (the paratype, sample 200.164). Measurements. Carapace 1.38 long, 1.15 wide, 0.65 high at PLE. Ocular area 0.93 long, 1.00 wide anteriorly and 1.16 wide posteriorly. Diameter of AME 0.34. Abdomen 1.55 long, 1.10 wide. Cheliceral length 0.43. Clypeal height 0.05. Length of leg segments: leg I- 0.78+0.40+0.48+0.35+0.30; leg II- 0.58+0.36+0.31+0.33+0.29; leg III- 0.65+0.29+0.33+0.38+0.28; leg IV- 0.75+0.30+0.40+0.48+0.33. Leg spination. Leg I: Tb v 1-2-2; Mt v 2-2ap. Leg II: Tb pr 0-1-0, v 1-1ap; Mt v 2-2ap. Leg III: Tb pr and rt 0-1-0, v 1ap; Mt pr, rt and v 1ap. Leg IV: no spines. Colouration as in the male (Figs 27-28), but diff ers as follows: no scutum on dorsum; book-lung covers and spinnerets yellow; palps yellow; tibiae I brownish. Epigyne and spermathecae as in Figs 31-32.
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Further notes on the Harmochireae of Africa (Araneae, Salticidae, Pelleninae).
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NE region of Madagascar (Tamatave and Ranomafana).
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