Biology:Prostheclina

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Prostheclina
Prostheclina pallida 1.jpg
Prostheclina pallida
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Prostheclina
Keyserling, 1882[1]
Type species
P. pallida
Keyserling, 1882
Species

7, see text

Prostheclina is a genus of Australia jumping spiders that was first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1882.[2]

Species

Until 2007, only one species from this genus was known. (As of August 2019) it contains seven species, found only in Australia :[1]

  • Prostheclina amplior Richardson & Zabka, 2007Australia (Queensland to Tasmania)
  • Prostheclina basilonesa Richardson & Zabka, 2007 – Australia (Victoria, Tasmania)
  • Prostheclina boreoaitha Richardson & Zabka, 2007 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Prostheclina boreoxantha Richardson & Zabka, 2007 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Prostheclina bulburin Richardson & Zabka, 2007 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Prostheclina eungella Richardson & Zabka, 2007 – Australia (Queensland)
  • Prostheclina pallida Keyserling, 1882 (type) – Eastern Australia

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Prostheclina Keyserling, 1882. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2907. Retrieved 2019-09-11. 
  2. Keyserling, E. (1882). Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg 1. pp. 1325–1420. 

Wikidata ☰ Q943915 entry