Soesiladeepakius

Soesiladeepakius is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

The type species S. aschnae is only known from male specimens. These are 2.4 mm long, with a brown carapace.

Validity

The genus describer Dewanand Makhan publishes in the Australian journal "Calodema", whose editor seems to have no quality standards whatsoever, while comparing scientists in general with Hitler and Stalin.^[1] While Makhan's work on ants and beetles^[2] is substandard (describing existing species without knowledge of the fundamental literature), Soesiladeepakius seems to have been accepted by the arachnologist community, with six species having been added by Ruiz & Maddison in 2012.

Name

The genus is a combination of the given names Soesila and Deepak, the wife and son of the describer. The species is named after the describers daughter Aschna.

Species

• Soesiladeepakius arthrostylus Ruiz & Maddison, 2012 — Brazil
• Soesiladeepakius aschnae Makhan, 2007 — Suriname
• Soesiladeepakius biarmatus Ruiz & Maddison, 2012 — Brazil
• Soesiladeepakius gasnieri Ruiz & Maddison, 2012 — Brazil
• Soesiladeepakius lyra Ruiz & Maddison, 2012 — Brazil
• Soesiladeepakius retroversus Ruiz & Maddison, 2012 — Brazil
• Soesiladeepakius uncinatus Ruiz & Maddison, 2012 — Brazil

References

• Makhan, Dewanand (2007): Soesiladeepakius aschnae gen. et sp. nov. and Soesilarishius amrishi gen. et sp. nov. from Suriname (Araneae: Salticidae). Calodema Supplementary Paper 60. PDF
• Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
• Gustavo Ruiz & Wayne P. Maddison (2012): DNA sequences corroborate Soesiladeepakius as a non-salticoid genus of jumping spiders: placement with lapsiines, phylogeny, and description of six new species (Araneae, Salticidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165'(2): 274–295 doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00815.x

See also

• Rishaschia
• Soesilarishius