title: New species ofHabronattusandPellenesjumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Harmochirina).
abstract: The harmochirine jumping spiders include the New WorldHabronattus, notable for their complex courtship displays, andPellenes, found throughout the Old World and North America. Five new species ofHabronattusand one new species ofPellenesare here described from North America:Habronattus aestus,sp. n.,Habronattus chamelasp. n.,Habronattus empyrussp. n.,Habronattus luminosussp. n.,Habronattus robertisp. n., andPellenes canadensissp. n.For each of the new species, photographs of living specimens are given, as well as notes on habitat. The new subgenus Pellenattus is described for the subgroup ofPellenesrestricted to North America, with type speciesPellenes peninsularisEmerton, 1925. Species placed in Pellenes (Pellenattus) arePellenes apacheusLowrie & Gertsch, 1955,Pellenes canadensissp. n.,Pellenes crandalliLowrie & Gertsch, 1955,Pellenes dorsalis(Banks, 1898b),Pellenes grammaticusChamberlin 1925,Pellenes leviiLowrie & Gertsch, 1955,Pellenes limatusPeckham & Peckham, 1901,Pellenes longimanusEmerton, 1913,Pellenes peninsularisEmerton, 1925,Pellenes shoshonensisGertsch, 1934, andPellenes washonusLowrie & Gertsch, 1955.Pellenes wrightiLowrie & Gertsch, 1955 is synonymized withPellenes peninsularis. Attention is drawn to an undescribed species ofHabronattusfrom Canada whose only known specimen is apparently lost.
authors.affiliation: Beaty Biodiversity Museum and Departments of Zoology and Botany, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
authors.forename: Wayne P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Maddison
keywords: Araneae; Harmochirina; Plexippini; Salticidae; jumping spider