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Retinae of the secondary eyes of a primitive salticid spider, Yaginumanis sexdentatus (Yaginuma 1967) are described at the ultrastructural level. The structures of the anterior lateral, posterior lateral and posterior median eyes are identical. Receptor somata lie in the retinal cups. Each receptor bearing twin rhabdomeres is ensheated by (i) much-divided processes of non-pigmented glial cells whose somata lie distally in the retinal cups; and (ii) four processes of pigmented glial cells whose somata lie basally, below the receptive segments. Pigment granules in the latter are concentrated in the basal retina, and are not present at the level of the rhabdoms. The present findings support the placement of Yaginumanis in a newly erected Subfamily Spartaeinae by Wanless (1984), because of the likelihood of homology in the fine structural organisation of the secondary retinae of this genus and of the genus Portia.
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Blest, A.D. Secondary retinae of a primitive jumping spider, Yaginumanis (Arachnida, Araneida, Salticidae). Zoomorphology 104, 223–225 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00312034
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