Abstract
Two new jumping spider species: Nandiciusvallisflorumsp. n., (♀) and Pelleneshimalayasp. n. (♂, ♀), are diagnosed, described and illustrated in detail. The specimens were collected from the Valley of Flowers, western Himalayas, Uttarakhand State of India.
Highlights
The Indian salticid diversity is represented by 245 species in 79 genera (WSC 2018) of which, 65 species under 40 genera are known from across the Indian Himalayan region (Caleb and Kumar 2018a)
Detailed micro-photographs were obtained using a Leica M205A stereomicroscope attached with Leica DFC500 HD camera enabled with a Leica Application Suite (LAS) version 3.8
Line drawings were prepared with the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) (Montesanto 2015)
Summary
The Indian salticid diversity is represented by 245 species in 79 genera (WSC 2018) of which, 65 species under 40 genera are known from across the Indian Himalayan region (Caleb and Kumar 2018a). Female (ZSI-CDT-AA1649) from Valley of Flowers (30.72362°N, 79.58764°E), 3567 m a.s.l., Chamoli District, Uttarakhand, India, 16 June 2017, S.K. Sajan & party. N. can be distinguished from other congeners except N. mussooriensis (Prószyński, 1992) in having an epigyne with crescent shaped sclerotized margins within which the copulatory openings are present
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