Spartaeinae

Spartaeinae
female Portia fimbriata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Spartaeinae
Wanless, 1984
Genera

See text.

The Spartaeinae are a subfamily of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). The subfamily 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]

The Spartaeinae are palaeotropical, with an exceptional diversity in the Malaysian and Indonesian archipelagos.[3]

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 Salticinae possess.[4] Spartaeinae usually have large posterior median eyes. However, these were reduced in the genera Cyrba, Gelotia and Wanlessia.[5]

Genera

As of 2015, Spartaeinae is divided into 29 genera:[6]

References

  1. Wanless, Fred R. (1984). "A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae:Salticidae) with descriptions of six genera". Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 42 (4): 263–298.
  2. Simon, E. (1901). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Vol. 2, part 3. pp. 381–668.
  3. Wijesinghe, D.P. (1992). "A new genus of jumping spider from Borneo with notes on the Spartaeine palp (Araneae: Salticidae)" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 40: 9–19. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
  4. Maddison, Wayne P. (1995). "Spartaeinae". The Tree of Life Web Project Version 1. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
  5. Zhang, J.X.; Woon, J.R.W. & Li, D. (2006). "A new genus and species of jumping spiders (Araneae:Salticidae:Spartaeinae) from Malaysia" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 54 (2): 241–244. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
  6. Maddison, Wayne P. (November 2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
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