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Elegant Jumping Spider

(Chrysilla volupe) - Female

Description:

Males have a carapace in reddish orange color with two iridescent blue stripes. Legs have iridescent scales that make them appear golden and purple shades. Females have greyish carapace with grey eyebrows with all legs yellow in color. The female was described 139 years after the species was first described by Karsch in 1879. Until 2018, only males had been identified and described, based on the male type specimen described by Karsch.

Habitat:

Among tree leaves.

Notes:

Chrysilla volupe (Karsch, 1879) is redescribed based on fresh materials collected from India. The female is described for the first time. Observations on the initial developmental stages of the eggs and the first instar are documented. A map showing the refined distributional range of C. volupe is provided. A new combination is proposed for the African species, Chrysilla guineensis (Wesołowska et Wiśniewski, 2013) comb.n. (ex. Phintella), thereby confirming the occurrence of the genus in the Afrotropical Region.

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2 Comments

Machi
Machi 2 years ago

Wow! So colorful!

Ingrid3
Ingrid3 2 years ago

So Beautiful! great photography!

Sulakkhana
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Sulakkhana

Ambalangoda, Southern Province, Sri Lanka

Spotted on Apr 14, 2021
Submitted on Apr 14, 2021

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