Ogdenia

Ogdenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Ogdenia
Species: O. mutilla
Binomial name
Ogdenia mutilla
(Peckham & Peckham, 1907)[1]
Synonyms

Rooseveltia mutilla

Ogdenia is a genus of the jumping spiders endemic to Sarawak, Borneo. As of 2017, it contains only one species, Ogdenia mutilla.[1] Peckham & Peckham regarded the species as being close to Hasarius. The female epigyne was drawn by Proszynsky (1984).

Name

The genus was originally called Rooseveltia, but replaced by the original authors a year later.[2] The original describers thought the species to mimic a mutillid wasp.[3]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 "Salticidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
  2. Platnick 2007
  3. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 272

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