Thiodina
| Thiodina | |
|---|---|
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| female Thiodina puerpera | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Section: | Dionycha |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Amycinae |
| (unranked): | Amycoida |
| Genus: | Thiodina Simon, 1900 |
| Type species | |
| Attus elegans Nicolet, 1849 | |
| Species | |
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see text | |
| Diversity | |
| 20 species | |
All Thiodina spiders have two pairs of bulbous spines (bs) on the first tibiae.
Thiodina is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Thiodina species are endemic to North and South America, ranging from New York to Argentina.[1] All members of the genus have two pairs of bulbous spines on the ventral side of the first tibiae. The function of these spines is unknown.[1]
Species
Twenty species of Thiodina are recognized:[2]
- Thiodina branicki (Taczanowski, 1871) — Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana
- Thiodina candida Mello-Leitão, 1922 — Brazil
- Thiodina cockerelli (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) — Hispaniola, Jamaica
- Thiodina crucifera (F. O. P-Cambridge, 1901) — Panama
- Thiodina germaini Simon, 1900 — Brazil, Argentina
- Thiodina hespera Richman & Vetter, 2004 — United States, Mexico
- Thiodina inerma Bryant, 1940 — Cuba
- Thiodina melanogaster Mello-Leitão, 1917 — Brazil
- Thiodina nicoleti Roewer, 1951 — Chile
- Thiodina pallida (C. L. Koch, 1846) — Colombia to Argentina
- Thiodina peckhami (Bryant, 1940) — Cuba
- Thiodina pseustes Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 — Panama
- Thiodina puerpera (Hentz, 1846) — eastern United States
- Thiodina punctulata Mello-Leitão, 1917 — Brazil
- Thiodina rishwani Makhan, 2006 — Surinam
- Thiodina robusta Mello-Leitão, 1945 — Argentina
- Thiodina setosa Mello-Leitão, 1947 — Brazil
- Thiodina sylvana (Hentz, 1846) — United States to Panama
- Thiodina vaccula Simon, 1900 — Peru, Brazil
- Thiodina vellardi Soares & Camargo, 1948 — Brazil
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Richman, David B.; Richard S. Vetter (2004). "A Review of the Spider Genus Thiodina (Araneae, Salticidae) in the United States". The Journal of Arachnology 32 (3): 418–431. doi:10.1636/H03-45.
- ↑ Platnick, Norman I. (2008): Salticidae, The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
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Videos
- David Edwin Hill: Male Thiodina sylvana feeding on Oxyopes salticus — Video 220 Mb
- David Edwin Hill: Movement of the articulated pretarsal claws and footpads by a walking jumping spider, Thiodina sylvana — Video 218 Mb
- David Edwin Hill: Thiodina sylvana feeding on Leucauge venusta — Video
- David Edwin Hill: Thiodina sylvana walking and turning slowly — Video
Pictures
- Photographs of Thiodina species
- Paintings of Thiodina sp.
- Picture of T. puerpera
- Pictures of T. silvana
Further reading
- Simon, E. (1900). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae. Ann. Soc. ent. Belg. 44: 381-407.