Description of a new horned jumping spider species Thorelliola mahunkai (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Guinea

摘要

A horned jumping spider species, Thorelliola mahunkai sp n is described from New Guinea. The type species of the genus is also illustrated. The genus Thorelliola was established by Strand in 1942 for Thorellia ensi-fera (the previous name of the genus- Thorellia Keyserling, 1882 was preoccupied). The genus contains now eight nominal species, mainly described by Berry et al. (1997) and Gardzinska & Patoleta (1997). During cataloguing the jumping spider collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, I found a few tubes identified by Kalman Szombathy, labelled as Thorellia, and several indet., in the Balogh collection. This peculiar genus is easy to recognise, as the males have "horns" on the clypeus. The specimens definitely belong to the genusThorelliola, but do not correspond with any hitherto known species.