Pachyballus flavipes
species of arachnid
Pachyballus flavipes is a species of jumping spider that lives in Africa. A typical member of the genus Pachyballus, the spider has a dark brown or blackish body that consists of a round cephalothorax, or forward section, that is from 1.2 to 1.6 mm long and, behind that, a larger heart-shaped abdomen that is between 1.9 and 3.1 mm long. Both sexes generally look similar. The male has darker legs than the female, and its front pair are also thicker than the rest. Both have a body is covered with a pitted outer coating that shows signs of sclerotization. The spider is nearly hairless and there is a large scutum on the top of its abdomen, which resemble the hardened forewing, or elytra, of beetles. This helps it to mimic members of the Coccinellidae family. On the underside of its abdomen are two smaller scuta. The male was first described by the arachnologist Eugène Simon in 1909, the female not being described until 1941. The latter description, by Lucien Berland and Jacques Millot, was originally called Pachyballus cordiformis, which is now synonymised with this species.
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