Mogrus ignarus

Mogrus ignarus is a jumping spider that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska in 2000.{{cite web|author=World Spider Catalog|year=2021|title=Mogrus ignarus Wesolowska, 2000|website=World Spider Catalog|publisher=Natural History Museum|place=Bern|url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/species/30892/Mogrus_ignarus|version=22.0|accessdate=5 March 2021}} It is one of over 500 species identified by the Polish arachnologist during her career.{{sfn|Wiśniewski|2020|page=6}} She allocated the species to the genus Mogrus, first raised by Eugène Simon in 1882.{{sfn|Prószyński|2003|page=99}} In Wayne Maddison's 2015 study of spider phylogenetic classification, the genus Mogrus was placed in the clade Simonida within the subfamily Saltafresia.{{sfn|Maddison|2015|page=279}} He considered that it a member of the tribe Salticini.{{sfn|Maddison|2015|page=280}} Two years later, in 2017, Jerzy Prószyński grouped the genus with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Hyllines, which was named after the genus Hyllus. He used the shape of the embolus as a distinguishing sign for the group.{{sfn|Prószyński|2017|page=35}} Hyllines was itself tentatively placed within a supergroup named Hylloida.{{sfn|Prószyński|2017|page=31}} The species is named for a Latin word that can be translated unknown.{{sfn|Wesołowska|2000|page=157}}

The species is medium-sized. The male has a high dark brown carapace that is between {{convert|2.6|and|2.8|mm|in|abbr=on}} long and between {{convert|2.1|and|2.3|mm|in|abbr=on}} wide. It has two stripes made of white hairs that stretch down the middle of the back. The eye field is black and has brown bristles around the eyes. The clypeus is brown and very low. The chelicerae are rather long and have a covering of white hairs. The labium is brown. The abdomen is between {{convert|2.6|and|3.0|mm|in|abbr=on}} long and between {{convert|1.7|and|2.0|mm|in|abbr=on}} wide. It is elongated and has a pattern on its back with the central third a brown stripe, the remainder white. The underside is dark, as are the spinnerets. The legs are brownish with long brown spines and hairs. The pedipalps are dark. The palpal bulb has a single upright pointed tibial apophysis and long thin embolus. The embolus has a membrane and long appendage at its base. This appendage helps distinguish the species from the otherwise similar Mogrus antoninus, which lives in Central Asia.{{sfn|Wesołowska|2000|pages=157, 159}} It is also similar to Mogrus mathisi, with the wider palpal bulb and extension on the tegulum being the most obvious features that differentiate the other species as well as the lack of the embolus' membrane and appendage.{{sfn|Wesołowska|2003|page=426}} The female has not been described.

Mogrus ignarus is endemic to Zimbabwe. The holotype was discovered in the Doddiebum Ranch alongside a larger paratype in 1985.{{sfn|Wesołowska|2000|page=157}}

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• {{cite journal | last=Maddison | first=Wayne P. |title=A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) | journal=The Journal of Arachnology | year= 2015 | volume=43 | number=3 | pages=231–292 | doi=10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292 | s2cid=85680279 | author-link=Wayne Maddison}}
• {{cite journal | last=Prószyński | first=Jerzy | year=2003 | title=Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant | journal=Annales Zoologici, Warszawa | issue=53 | pages=1–180 | author-link=Jerzy Prószyński}}
• {{cite journal | last=Prószyński | first=Jerzy | year=2017 | title=Pragmatic classification of the World's Salticidae (Araneae) | journal=Ecologica Montenegrina | volume=12 | pages=1–133 | doi=10.37828/em.2017.12.1 | doi-access=free}}
• {{cite journal | last=Wesołowska | first=Wanda | year=2000 | title=New and little known species of jumping spiders from Zimbabwe (Araneae: Salticidae) | journal=Arnoldia Zimbabwe | volume=10 | pages=145–174 | author-link=Wanda Wesołowska}}
• {{cite journal | last=Wesołowska | first=Wanda | year=2003 | title=A redescription of Mogrus mathisi (Berland et Millot, 1941) and its synonyms (Araneae: Salticidae) | journal=Genus | volume=14 | number=3 | pages=425–430}}
• {{cite journal | last=Wiśniewski | first=Konrad | title=Over 40 years with jumping spiders: on the 70th birthday of Wanda Wesołowska | journal=Zootaxa | volume=4899 | number=1 | year=2020 | pages=5–14 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.3 | pmid=33756825 | s2cid=232337200}}

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Category:Endemic fauna of Zimbabwe

Category:Salticidae

Category:Spiders described in 2000

Category:Spiders of Africa

Category:Taxa named by Wanda Wesołowska