Biology:Thianella

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Thianella
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: incertae sedis
Genus: Thianella
Strand, 1907, nomen dubium[1]
Species:
T. disjuncta
Binomial name
Thianella disjuncta
Strand, 1907, nomen dubium[1]

Thianella is a possible monotypic genus of jumping spiders containing the single species, Thianella disjuncta. It was first described by Embrik Strand in 1907,[2] and is found only on Java.[1] Based on a male specimen, Roewer placed it close to Thiania, but his placements of salticids have often been questionable and no drawings currently exist.[3] The name is an alteration of the salticid genus Thiania, and the species name is from Latin disiunctus "separated". The World Spider Catalog regards the genus and species names as nomina dubia (dubious names).[1]

In 1963, Schenkel named a new genus "Thianella", but this was invalid because of the prior existence of Strand's Thianella. The replacement name Tasa was put forward by Wanda Wesołowska in 1981.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Gen. Thianella Strand, 1907. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3008. Retrieved 2019-09-26. 
  2. Strand, E. (1907). "Spinnen des Zoologischen Instituts in Tübingen". Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 24: 391–468. 
  3. Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. p. 273. ISBN 978-983-9681-17-8. 
  4. "Gen. Tasa Wesołowska, 1981". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3008. 

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