Biology:Padillothorax

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Padillothorax
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Padillothorax
Simon, 1901[1]
Type species
P. semiostrinus Simon, 1901
Species

See text.

Padillothorax is a genus of southeastern Asian jumping spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1901.[2] (As of April 2019) it contains only two species.[1]

Taxonomy

First described by Eugène Simon in 1901, Padillothorax was synonymized with Stagetillus by Jerzy Prószyński in 1987.[1] Stagetillus was placed in the tribe Baviini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae by Wayne Maddison in 2015,[3] on the basis of molecular phylogenetic evidence, although only a single unidentified species of Stagetillus from Selangor was included in the analysis.[4] In 2017, Prószyński recognized the genus again, but did not include the type species, Padillothorax semiostrinus, so his action was not valid under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. He included this species in 2018, thus successfully reviving the genus. He also transferred a species included in Padillothorax by Reimoser in 1927 to a new genus Padillothorus, leaving two species in Padillothorax.[1][5]

Species

(As of January 2021), the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Padillothorax badut Maddison, 2020 – Malaysia (Borneo)
  • Padillothorax casteti (Simon, 1900) – India
  • Padillothorax exilis (Cao & Li, 2016) – China
  • Padillothorax flavopunctus (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018) – Sri Lanka
  • Padillothorax mulu Maddison, 2020 – Malaysia (Borneo)
  • Padillothorax semiostrinus Simon, 1901 (type species) – Malaysia (peninsula), Singapore, Taiwan?
  • Padillothorax taprobanicus Simon, 1902 – Sri Lanka

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Gen. Padillothorax Simon, 1901". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/4614. 
  2. Simon, E. (1901). "On the Arachnida collected during the Skeat expedition to the Malay Peninsula.". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 71 (1): 45–84. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08164.x. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/76082. 
  3. Maddison, Wayne P. (2015), "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)", Journal of Arachnology 43 (3): 231–292, doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292 
  4. Maddison, W.P; Li, D.Q.; Bodner, M.; Zhang, J.X.; Xu, X.; Liu, Q.Q.; Liu, F.X. (2014), "The deep phylogeny of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae)", ZooKeys (440): 57–87, doi:10.3897/zookeys.440.7891, PMID 25317062 
  5. Prószyński, J. (2018), "Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae)", Ecologica Montenegrina 16: 130–179, doi:10.37828/em.2018.16.12 

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