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Descriptions of New Taxa
A Supplement to Salticidae Diagnostic Drawings Library
by Jerzy Proszynski 1997
Phlegra pori Proszynski, 1988
See Drawings
Material: female holotype - "Sinai: Mt. Catherina, 16. VIII. 1968, leg. G. TSABAR. Coll . HUJ 14243"
Etymology: named for Professor F. D. POR, of the Department of Zoology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, who supported and assisted greatly in the present research.
Diagnosis. Epigynal depressions large, without a posterior rim, spaced by about their diameter, septum of constant width, first chamber of spermathecae narrow.
FEMALE
Cephalothorax light brown with lighter, yellow streaks along the dorsal edges, separated by a light brown area; eye field dark brown; upper sides fawn, lower yellow with dark ventral edge and white setae.
Abdomen much damaged, soft tissues shrunken and now separated from tegument; remnants of whitish and darker setae; no positive proof of previous existence of stripes. Frontal aspect: clypeus light yellow with indistinct, colorless setae and brown bristles basally; eyes I surrounded with white setae, there is a yellowish spot, dorso-laterally at ALE. Chelicerae light yellow; pedipalps light yellow with darker spots basally on tarsus, on tibia and patella. Legs I light brown with light transverse spot on tibia and patella. Ventral aspect generally whitish yellow, abdomen light whitish yellow with small, darker grey spots, more concentrated along median line.
Epigyne with two grooves, truncated anteriorly, broadly open posteriorly, divided by broad septum not narrowing posteriorly. Copulatory opening very broad, funnel like narrowing channel leads to the anterior chamber from which convoluted narrow chambers of spermathecae run medially to midway along the epigyne.
Distribution: known from Sinai only.