Spartaeinae
| Spartaeinae | |
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| female Portia fimbriata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Spartaeinae Wanless, 1984 |
| Genera | |
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The Spartaeinae are a subfamily of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). It was established by Fred R. Wanless in 1984[1] to include the groups Boetheae, Cocaleae, Lineae, Codeteae and Cyrbeae, which in turn were defined by Eugène Simon.[2]
18 existing and five extinct genera, with 119 existing species, are included as of 2006.[3] They are palaeotropical, with an exceptional diversity in the Malaysian and Indonesian archipelagos.[4]
They are unusual salticids that are considered basal to the phylogenetic tree of jumping spiders. Like the Lyssomaninae they lack many derived features that the Salticoida possess.[5] The two subfamilies are similar, but the Spartaeinae usually have large posterior median eyes. However, these were reduced in the genera Cyrba, Gelotia and Wanlessia.[3]
Genera
- This list is mainly derived from Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog and probably not up to current research[6]
- Allococalodes
- Araneotanna
- Brettus
- Cenattus †
- Cocalodes
- Cocalus
- Cyrba
- Eolinus † (only known from Baltic amber)
- Gelotia
- Holcolaetis
- Lapsias
- Meleon
- Mintonia
- Neobrettus
- Paracyrba
- Paralinus †
- Phaeacius
- Portia
- Sonoita
- Taraxella
- Veissella
- Wanlessia
- Yaginumanis
- Sparbambus
- Spartaeus
Footnotes
References
- Simon, E. (1901): Histoire naturelle des araignées 2(3): 381-668.
- Wanless, Fred R. (1984): A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae:Salticidae) with descriptions of six genera. Bull. Brit. Mus. nat. Histo. (Zool.) 42(4): 263-298.
- Wijesinghe, D.P. (1992): A new genus of jumping spider from Borneo with notes on the Spartaeine palp (Araneae: Salticidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 40: 9-19. PDF
- Maddison, Wayne P. (1995): Spartaeinae. Version 1 January 1995 (under construction). in The Tree of Life Web Project
- Zhang, J.X.; Woon, J.R.W. & Li, D. (2006): A new genus and species of jumping spiders (Araneae:Salticidae:Spartaeinae) from Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54(2): 241-244. PDF