Biology:Pochytoides

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Pochytoides
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pochytoides
Wesołowska, 2020
Type species
Pochyta poissoni
(Berland & Millot, 1941)
Species

11, see text

Pochytoides is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska in 2020.[1]

Taxonomy

The group was first described by Berland and Millot in 1941 as a subgenus of the genus Pochyta.[2] It was elevated to a full genus by Wanda Wesołowska in 2018.[3] However, neither name was valid as no type species had been given. Wesołowska corrected this in 2020, designating Pochyta poissoni.[1]

Like Pochyta, Pochytoides is placed in the tribe Aelurillini in the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[3]

Species

(As of October 2022) the genus contained eleven species. All species are known from Guinea and/or Ivory Coast:[4]

  • Pochytoides lamottei (Wesołowska, 2018)
  • Pochytoides mirabilis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
  • Pochytoides monticola (Wesołowska, 2018)
  • Pochytoides obstipa (Wesołowska, 2018)
  • Pochytoides patellaris (Wesołowska, 2018)
  • Pochytoides perezi (Berland & Millot, 1941)
  • Pochytoides poissoni (Berland & Millot, 1941)
  • Pochytoides securis (Wesołowska, 2018)
  • Pochytoides spinigera (Wesołowska, 2018)
  • Pochytoides tonkoui Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
  • Pochytoides tournieri Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Wesołowska, Wanda (2020). "Authorship of the generic name Pochytoides (Araneae, Salticidae)". Bionomina 18 (1): 56. doi:10.11646/bionomina.18.1.3. 
  2. Berland, Lucien; Millot, Jacques (1941). "Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides". Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 12: 297–423. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Wesołowska, Wanda (2018). "A revision of the genus Pochytoides Berland & Millot, 1941 (Araneae: Salticidae), with descriptions of six new species". European Journal of Taxonomy (418): 1–26. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.418. 
  4. "Gen. Pochytoides Wesołowska, 2020". Natural History Museum Bern. https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5653. 

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