Langona bethae is a species of jumping spider in the genus Langona that lives in Botswana and Zimbabwe. The male was first described in 2011 by Wanda Wesołowska and Meg Cumming. The spider is large with a cephalothorax between 2.6 and 3.5 mm long and a abdomen between 2.2 and 4.4 mm. The female is larger than the male. The spider has a brown carapace that has two white streaks on the thorax a black eye field. It has the toothless chelicerae typical of the genus. It can be distinguished by its abdominal pattern, which has a yellow streak of an irregular shape. The male has a hidden embolus that is shorter than that on the related Langona pilosa. The female has copulatory organs that resemble Langelurillus ignorabilis but differ in the design of the seminal ducts.
Langona bethae
Langona is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. Langona species are similar to those of the genus Aelurillus. In 2015, it was listed in the subtribe Aelurillina. The subtribe is allocated to the tribe Aelurillini in the clade Saltafresia. In 2017, it was grouped with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines.
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