Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library

by Jerzy Proszynski 1997

Mendoza pulchra (Proszynski, 1976)

No. 0354 Japan; Korea (matching of males questioned by Logunov 1999b: 56-57)

1. by Proszynski 1976:  holotype from Japan: Nagano Pref. 

abdomen gold with median streak blue and lateral spots velvet black

2. by Wesolowska 1981 (according to Logunov 1999b: 55-57 - male considered mismatched)

3. by Logunov D.V., Wesolowska W. 1992 (according to Logunov 1999b: 55-57 - male mismatched)

4. Logunov, 1999b: f 127-128

1. by Proszynski <===================>5. Logunov, Marusik 2000
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5. Documentation of description:   
   a) original label in Proszynski 1976: 187 - at the time considered "provisional publication of drawings"
 of the holotype - a specimen "striking as being most beautiful Salticid in the area: abdomen gold with
 median streak blue and lateral spots velvet black"

  b) efforts to save name "Marpissa pulchra" - description in Weso;owska 1981a:  66 -
 paratypes supposedly "being faded", specimens from Korea

The  precedesns of recognition of names incompletely described was given by the following case: 
N. I. Platnick 2005. The World Spider Catalog, Version 5.0 (Internet). Comment to Bathippus kochi: 
"omitted by Roewer, considered a nomen nudum by Bonnet, but Simon provided purportedly diagnostic
 information and the specific name is therefore valid". That description is quoted below: