Biology:Nosferattus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Nosferattus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Tribe: Sitticini
Genus: Nosferattus
Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005[1]
Type species
N. discus
Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005
Species

5, see text

Nosferattus is a genus of Brazil ian jumping spiders that was first described by G. R. S. Ruiz & Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2005.[2] The name is a combination of "Nosferatu" and the ending -attus, a common salticid genera suffix.[2]

They range from 3 to 5.5 millimetres (0.12 to 0.22 in) long. Males have a smooth, oval-shaped plate (scutum) on the upper surface of the opisthosoma (abdomen). Nosferattus can be distinguished from other genera in the tribe Sitticini by the presence of highly flattened pedipalps in males, and very long and coiled copulation ducts in females.[2] They are likely related to Aillutticus, which also has a high, broad carapace, rounded laterally behind the posterior lateral eyes, and a slightly convex cephalic region.[2]

Species

(As of July 2019) it contains five species, found only in Brazil :[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Nosferattus Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2820. Retrieved 2019-08-26. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Ruiz, G. R. S.; Brescovit, A. D. (2005). "Three new genera of jumping spider from Brazil (Araneae, Salticidae)". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 22 (3): 687–695. doi:10.1590/S0101-81752005000300026. 

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