Talk:Zygoballus remotus

Original description (1896)

Zygoballus remotus sp. nov.

Male. Length, 4.3. Length of cephalothorax, 2; width of cephalothorax, 1.7.
Legs, 1423; first pair stoutest.

This is a dark-colored species, with the palpi and the first pair of legs long, and the posterior three pairs of legs yellow.

The cephalothorax is high and is widest at the dorsal eyes, from which point there is a steep descent to the hinder margin. The cephalic part is slightly convex and the sides are nearly vertical. The quadrangle of the eyes is wider behind than in front and occupies more than half of the cephalothorax. The first row of eyes is straight. The middle eyes are about twice as large as the lateral, and are close together, while the lateral are separated from them. The second row of eyes is nearer the first than the third. The third row is as wide as the cephalothorax at that place. The falces are, like those of most of the males of this genus, directed obliquely forward, with a long fang, and have a vertical apophysis at the proximal end, which terminates in a sharp tooth.

The integument is smooth and is dark brown, deepening to black on the cephalothorax. The cephalothorax seems to have been covered with white hairs. On the abdomen there is a band of white hairs around the anterior end, which extends on to the sides. The falces are smooth and dark brown. The palpi are dark with a few light short hairs. The legs of the first pair have the femur and metatarsus and the distal part of the tibia dark brown; the other parts and all the joints of the other legs are yellow, with a few very short fine black spines.

We have a single male from the eastern part of Guatemala.

Cambridge description (1901)

Zygoballus remotus. (Tab. XXVIII. fig. 2, male.)

Zygoballus remotus, Peckh. Occas. Papers Nat. Hist. Soc. Wisc. iii. 1, p. 89, t. 7. figg. 2, 2a (male) (April 1896).

Type, male, in coll. Peckham. Total length 4.3 millim.

Hab. Guatemala.

Peckham makes no mention of any tooth, spur, or cusp on the basal segment of the mandible above, at the apex, so that one must conclude there is none present; and the absence of this will enable Z. remotus to be distinguished at once from the male of Z. rufipes. The legs ii., iii., and iv. in the present species, too, are unicolorous yellow (not slashed with black, as in Z. rufipes). Our figure of the palpus is taken from Peckhmam's work.