Biology:Epidelaxia
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Epidelaxia is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[1] Once considered completely endemic to Sri Lanka, additional species were discovered from Philippines in 2016 [2] and from India in 2025[3]
Species
As of June 2019[update] it contains four species, found only in Asia:[4]
- Epidelaxia albocruciata Simon, 1902 – Sri Lanka
- Epidelaxia albostellata Simon, 1902 (type) – Sri Lanka
- Epidelaxia falciformis Asima, Caleb, Prasad & Joseph, 2025 – India
- Epidelaxia maurerae Freudenschuss & Seiter, 2016 – Philippines
- Epidelaxia obscura Simon, 1902 – Sri Lanka
- Epidelaxia palustris Asima, Caleb, Prasad & Joseph, 2025 – India
References
- ↑ Simon, E. (1902). "Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46: 363–406.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Asima, Ashraf; Caleb, John T. D.; Prasad, Gopal; Joseph, Mathew M. (2025-02-25). "First record of Epidelaxia Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae) in India, with descriptions of two new species from the Western Ghats" (in en). Zootaxa 5590 (4): 595–600. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5590.4.10. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 40173916. https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5590.4.10.
- ↑ Gen. Epidelaxia Simon, 1902. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2635. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
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