S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 64. (Budapest, 2003)

FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK Volume 64 2003 pp. 59-62. A new species of Asemonea from equatorial Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae)* W. WESOLOWSKA and T. SZŰTS Abstract: Description of Asemonea virgea sp. n., a new lyssomanine salticid from Congo is given. With seven original drawings. Key words: Araneae, Salticidae, Asemonea, new species, Afrotropical region INTRODUCTION The genus Asemonea, established by O. P.-Cambridge (1869), is found both in the Afrotropical and Oriental Region. Lately one species was also recorded in Australia (Szűts 2000). Asemonea was revised by Wanless (1980). Subsequently Wesolowska (2001) described three new species and the genus comprises at the moment sixteen species. The biology of Asemonea species is poorly studied, but it is known that they live among leaves of trees and bushes in tropical zones and use a sheet web to capture prey (Wanless 1980, Hallas & Jackson 1986). The majority of species are known only from the type locality, so their distribution is almost unexplored. The paper presents description of a new species from Congo. MATERIALS AND METHODS All the measurements are given in millimetres. The type specimen is deposited in the Arachnoidea Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Abbreviations: d = dorsal, pi = prolateral, rl = retrolateral, v = ventral. Drawings were prepared by the first author. * This study was supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA, No. 038319).