Biology:Burmattus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Burmattus
Burmattus.pococki.female.-.tanikawa.jpg
Female Burmattus pococki
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Burmattus
Prószyński, 1992[1]
Type species
B. pococki
(Thorell, 1895)
Species

4, see text

Burmattus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Jerzy Prószyński in 1992.[2] The name is derived from "Burma", and "-attus", a common suffix for salticid genera.

Species

(As of June 2019) it contains four species, found only in Asia:[1]

  • Burmattus albopunctatus (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
  • Burmattus pachytibialis Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 – Indonesia (Sumbawa)
  • Burmattus pococki (Thorell, 1895) (type) – Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Japan
  • Burmattus sinicus Prószyński, 1992 – China

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Burmattus Prószyński, 1992. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2553. Retrieved 2019-07-05. 
  2. Prószyński, J. (1992). "Salticidae (Araneae) of the Old World and Pacific Islands in several US collections". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 44: 87–163. 

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