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Pedipalp (BG:523334) - Peckhamia americana - male

Pedipalp (BG:523334) - Peckhamia americana - Male
Pulaski County, Kentucky, USA
The tip of the embolus matches Dupérré's drawing of P. picata (which looks nothing like the drawing by the Peckhams). (The forked appearance is an illusion or reflection.) Unfortunately there is no drawing by Dupérré of any other Peckhamia species.

Ben, do you think this works for P. picata?

-K

Specimen collected by Brad Barnd:

Moved
Moved from Antmimic Jumper.

Could you take another look at this one
Comparing it to the diagrams at http://www.jumping-spiders.com I think it looks more like P. americana.

 
P. americana
I agree this looks more like P. americana. In particular, the dark ring of the embolus looks more like a circle than a spiral, and it seems to be smaller than that of P. picata. Compare with the pedipalp photo in Guerrero-Fuentes & Desales-Lara (2020), "Nuevos registros de arañas (Araneae) del Estado de México, México".

 
URL?
URL?

 
Here is a link to another site with the diagram

 
The site uses frames
so I can't link to the species page. Go to http://www.jumping-spiders.com, click on "taxonomy" then select Peckhamia from the dropdown that appears.

Thanks!

I think so
That sounds reasonable, though I was using the Peckhams' descriptions to identify the other presumed picata...

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