Biology:Epidelaxia

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Epidelaxia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Epidelaxia
Simon, 1902[1]
Type species
E. albostellata
Simon, 1902
Species

4, see text

Epidelaxia is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[2] Once considered completely endemic to Sri Lanka, another species was discovered from Philippines in 2016.[3]

Species

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

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Epidelaxia Simon, 1902. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2635. Retrieved 2019-07-07. 
  2. Simon, E. (1902). "Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46: 363–406. 
  3. "Four new species of the jumping spiders from the Philippines, with description of the male of Phintella piatensis Barrion et Litsinger, 1995". kmkjournals.com. http://kmkjournals.com/upload/PDF/ArthropodaSelecta/25/25_1_085_097_Freud_Seiter_for_Inet.pdf. 

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