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Langona improcera
Langona improcera is a species of jumping spider in the genus Langona that lives in Tanzania. The male was first described by Wanda Wesołowska and Anthony Russell-Smith in 2000. The female has not been identified. The spider is large with a carapace between 2.2 and 2.4 mm (0.087 and 0.094 in) long and an abdomen that is between 2.1 and 2.3 mm (0.083 and 0.091 in) in length. There are traces of stripes on the reddish-brown carapace. The abdomen has a distinctive scutum that distinguishes it from related species. The palpal bulb is also unusually narrow and has a long lobe at the base which can also be used to tell the spider apart from others in the genus.
From the article Langona improcera on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The spider is large and hairy. The male has a pear-shaped carapace that is between 2.2 and 2.4 mm (0.087 and 0.094 in) in length and 2 and 2.1 mm (0.079 and 0.083 in) in width. It is reddish-brown with a black eye field and has traces of stripes along its back. The abdomen is yellow and between 2.1 and 2.3 mm (0.083 and 0.091 in) long and between 1.8 and 2 mm (0.071 and 0.079 in) wide. It has a distinctive scutum on its back. The chelicerae is toothless apart from two small teeth on the edge of front. The spinnerets are long and beige. The legs are yellow and have brown hairs and spines. The pedipalps are orange with hairy cymbium. The palpal bulb is comparatively narrow with a long lobe at the base and a bump in the femur. There is a single appendage, or apophysis, on the tibia of the pedipalps. The female has not been described. The spider can be distinguished from other members of the genus by the scutum on its abdomen. It differs from Langona warchalowskii in the narrowness of the palpal bulb and the size of the lobe at its base.
Range & habitat
Langona improcera is endemic to Tanzania. The holotype was discovered in the 1997 in the Mkomazi National Park, living in shrub dominated by Senegalia mellifera.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 811248.