Biology:Langona

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Langona
Langona tartarica 1592.jpg
Langona tartarica
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Tribe: Aelurillini
Genus: Langona
Simon, 1901
Type species
Attus redii
Audouin, 1826
Species

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Langona is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Langona species are similar to those of the genus Aelurillus.[1] In 2015, it was listed in the subtribe Aelurillina. The subtribe is allocated to the tribe Aelurillini in the clade Saltafresia.[2] In 2017, it was grouped with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines.[3]

Species

As of May 2023, the genus contains 45 species:[4]

  • Langona albolinea Caleb & Mathai, 2015India
  • Langona alfensis Heciak & Prószynski, 1983 – Sudan
  • Langona aperta (Denis, 1958) – Afghanistan
  • Langona atrata Peng & Li, 2008China
  • Langona avara Peckham & Peckham, 1903Southern Africa
  • Langona bethae Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011 – Botswana, Zimbabwe
  • Langona bhutanica Prószynski, 1978 – Bhutan, China
  • Langona biangula Peng, Li & Yang, 2004 – China
  • Langona bisecta Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
  • Langona bitumorata Próchniewicz & Heciak, 1994 – Tanzania
  • Langona bristowei Berland & Millot, 1941West, Central Africa
  • Langona davidi (Caleb, Mungkung & Mathai, 2015) – India
  • Langona fusca Wesołowska, 2011 – Zimbabwe
  • Langona goaensis Prószynski, 1992India
  • Langona hirsuta Wesołowska, 2011 – South Africa
  • Langona hongkong Song et al., 1997Hong Kong
  • Langona improcera Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania
  • Langona kurracheensis Heciak & Prószynski, 1983 – India
  • Langona lotzi Wesołowska, 2011 – Lesotho, South Africa
  • Langona maculata Peng, Li & Yang, 2004 – China
  • Langona magna Caporiacco, 1947East Africa
  • Langona maindroni (Simon, 1886) – Senegal
  • Langona mallezi (Denis, 1947)Egypt
  • Langona manicata Simon, 1901 – South Africa
  • Langona mediocris Wesołowska, 2000 – Zimbabwe
  • Langona minima Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
  • Langona oreni Prószynski, 2000Israel
  • Langona pallida Prószynski, 1993 – Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan
  • Langona pallidula Logunov & Rakov, 1998 – Turkmenistan
  • Langona pattayensis Żabka & Patoleta, 2020 – Thailand
  • Langona pecten Próchniewicz & Heciak, 1994 – Kenya, Tanzania
  • Langona pilosa Wesołowska, 2006 – Namibia
  • Langona recta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
  • Langona redii (Audouin, 1826) – Egypt, Israel, Syria
  • Langona sabulosa Wesołowska, 2011 – Namibia
  • Langona senegalensis Berland & Millot, 1941 – Senegal
  • Langona simoni Heciak & Prószynski, 1983 – India
  • Langona tartarica (Charitonov, 1946)Central Asia, China
  • Langona tigrina (Simon, 1885) – India
  • Langona tortuosa Wesołowska, 2011 – Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe
  • Langona trifoveolata (Lessert, 1927) – Congo basin
  • Langona ukualuthensis Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
  • Langona vitiosa Wesołowska, 2006 – Namibia
  • Langona warchalowskii Wesołowska, 2007 – South Africa
  • Langona zimbabwensis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011 – Zimbabwe

Footnotes

  1. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 275
  2. Maddison 2015, p. 279.
  3. Prószyński 2017, p. 95.
  4. World Spider Catalog (2020). "Langona Simon, 1901". Natural History Museum. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2731. 

References

  • Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". The Journal of Arachnology 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. 
  • Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. 
  • Prószyński, Jerzy (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the World's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1–133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1. 

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