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Salticidae (Araneae) genera of the world - an atlas
(unfinished manuscript)
by Jerzy Prószyński
Professor Emeritus, Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences,
ul. Wilcza 63, 00-679 Warsaw, POLAND
e-mail: jerzy.proszynski@wp.pl

 Chapter 39
ASEMONEINES
informal group of genera
Version August 16th, 2020.
symbol of the supragroup LYSSOMANOIDA

Composition. The following genera are included: Asemonea Goleba Hindumanes Macopaeus Pandisus

Exemplary representatives of the group
Diagnostic characters in ASEMONEINES: A, H-I - Asemonea tenuipes, B - Asemonea tanikawai, J - Goleba lyra, K - Hindumanes karnatakaensis, L - Pandisus sara.
SOURCES: A - Photo R.R. Jackson; B - Photo Akio Tanikawa , I - Proszynski J. 1984c. Atlas: 3, J - Maddison & Zhang, 2006: 30, f. 1-7, Logunov D.V. 2004c. Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 13 (3): 73-75, f. 1-3, .L - Wanless 1980a Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology series) 38 (4): 220, f. 1A-F; 1980d. 39 (4): 219-221, f. 4a-j. All ©copyrights are retained by the original authors and copyright holders, used by their courtesy.

ASEMONEINES
informal group of genera

Mutual diagnostic characters of genera included. Eyes arranges in four lines. Legs thin but not "excessively"long (practical difference with LYSSOMANINES), palps with prominent apophyses on either tibia, patella or femur. Internal structures of epigyne diverse, poorly known, pending further research.

COMMENT. Comparison of diagnostic drawings by different authors discloses influence of different research philosophy. F. R. Wanless - excellent arachnologist and authority on several genera, dispersed attention to a number of different kind of characters, his drawings of genitalic characters, made with drawing apparatus, were small, originals about 5 x 5 cm, which gave imprecise picture, as exemplified by, for instance, Pandisus (below). Originals of drawings by Prószyński had standard dimensions 15 x 15 cm (at beginning even bigger) and were made with help of a microscope ocular grid, which did not blur observed picture. That permitted to base research on smaller details of epigyne structures.

Gen. Asemonea Pickard-Cambridge O., 1869
Type species Asemonea tenuipes (22 recognizable species).
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A-G, M - Asemonea murphyae, H-L - Asemonea tenuipes from Sri Lanka, L - same from Myanmar: Tharrawaddy, coll. Oates.
SOURCE. A-G - Wesołowska & Haddad 2013. Afr. Invert.: 54 (1): 185, f 3, H-K - Wanless, F. R. (1980d). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 39: 240, f. 2D; 18A-I, L - Proszynski J. 1984c. Atlas: 3, .M - ©Photo John and Frances Murphy. All ©copyrights are retained by the original authors and copyright holders, used by their courtesy.

Gen. Goleba Wanless, 1980
Type species Goleba puella (4 recognizable species).
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A-B - Goleba puella, C-D - Goleba lyra, E-F - Goleba sp.
SOURCE. A-B - Wesołowska, Haddad 2009. Maputaland. African Invertebrates, 50(1): 38, f 53-61, C-D - Maddison & Zhang, 2006. Zootaxa 1255:: 30, f. 1-7, E-F - ©Photo R.R. Jackson.All ©copyrights are retained by the original authors and copyright holders, used by their courtesy.

Gen. Hindumanes Logunov 2004
Type species Hindumanes karnatakaensis (1 recognizable species).
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1-2 - Hindumanes karnatakaensis.
 SOURCE. 1-2 - Logunov D.V. 2004c. Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 13 (3): 73-75, f. 1-3. All ©copyrights are retained by the original authors and copyright holders, used by their courtesy.:

Gen. Macopaeus Simon, 1900
Type species Macopaeus spinosus (1 recognizable species).
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A-D - Macopaeus spinosus.
SOURCE. Wanless F.R. 1980a. Bull. brit. Mus. nat. Hist. (Zool.)., 38 (4): 220, ff. 1A-F. All ©copyrights are retained by the original authors and copyright holders, used by their courtesy.

Gen. Pandisus Simon, 1900
Type species Pandisus scalaris (6 recognizable species).
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A - Pandisus scalaris (holotype male specimen presumed lost), B - Pandisus modestus (female only - "This may be conspecific with P. scalaris, only from male" - why? because both occur in Madagascar?), C_D - Pandisus decorus.
SOURCE. A - Simon, 1901a: 398, f. 396-397, B-C - Wanless 1980d. Bull. brit. Mus. nat. Hist. (Zool.), 39 (4): 222-224, f 6A-D; 2221-222, f 5a-g.. All ©copyrights are retained by the original authors and copyright holders, used by their courtesy.