Biology:Pochyta

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Short description: Genus of spiders

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

12, see text

Pochyta is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.[2]

Species

(As of October 2021) it contains twelve species, found only in Africa:[1]

  • Pochyta aurantiaca Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021 – Gabon
  • Pochyta equatorialis Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021 – Gabon
  • Pochyta fastibilis Simon, 1903 – Cameroon, Gabon
  • Pochyta insulana Simon, 1910 – São Tomé and Príncipe
  • Pochyta konilokho Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021 – Guinea
  • Pochyta lucida Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021 – Gabon
  • Pochyta maddisoni Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021 – Gabon
  • Pochyta major Simon, 1902 – Cameroon, Gabon, Angola
  • Pochyta minuta Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021 – Nigeria
  • Pochyta pulchra (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon, Gabon
  • Pochyta spinosa Simon, 1901 (type) – Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Mozambique, Madagascar
  • Pochyta tendicula Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021 – Gabon

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Pochyta Simon, 1901. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2897. Retrieved 14 October 2021. 
  2. Simon, E. (1901). "Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. L. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 70: 66–76. 

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