SALTICIDAE OF THE WORLD - Abstract - INDEX of Genera - FOREWORD & KEY to groups of genera! - AEURILLINES - Comparison HISTORICAL classification of Aelurilleae - AMYCINES- AMYCOIDA VARIA - ASTIAINES - BELIPPINES - CHRYSILLINES - COCALODINES - COLONINES [=Thiodinines] - DENDRYPHANTINES - DIOLENINES - EUOPHRYINES-PART 1 Introduction-Donoessus- EUOPHRYINES-PART 2 Echeclus-Pystira - EUOPHRYINES- PART 3 Rhyphelia-Zenodorus - EUPOAINES - EVARCHINES - FOSSILS - HABRONATTINES - HARMOCHIRINES - HELIOPHANINES - HISPONINES - HYLLINES - ICIINES - LAPSIINES - LIGONIPEINES - LYSSOMANINES - MENEMERINES - MYRMARACHNINES - NOTICIINES - PELLENINES - PSEUDICIINES - SIMAETHINES - SITTICINES - SPARTAEINES - THIRATOSCIRTINAE - YAGINUMAELLINES - YLLENINES - UNCLASSIFIED TEMPORARY - Maddison's views on Salticidae phylogeny 2014 - Omoedus synonymy
OUT OF DATE CLASSIFICATORY SYSTEMS -Simon's classification - Petrunkevich synthesis-1928 - Bonnet's list of subfamilies - Prószynski's revision of subfamilies 1976.
Monograph
of the Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015.
Introduction to alternative classification of Salticidae
Classification of the Salticidae genera of the World
group of genera
PSEUDICIINES
by Jerzy
Prószyński
Version December 31st, 2015
Note on illustrations. This introduction to classification
of Salticidae includes only species defined by diagnostic illustrations in
the taxonomic literature, arranged by similarities of embolus and spermophor.
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Gen. Spadera Peckham, Peckham, 1894 (1 species) [synonym reinstated]
Spadera unica Peckham & Peckham, 1894: 118, pl. 12, f. 1 (Dm).
Pseudicius unicus Simon, 1901a: 613, 623.
Pseudicius unicus Prószynski, 1987: 51 (m).
Type species Spadera unica Peckham, Peckham, 1894 from Madagascar.
DIAGNOSIS. Little known genus, somewhat resembling Rudakius by shape of embolus and bulbus, tibial apophysis could be derived: long thin, terminated by minute fork. Original description is not unequivocal, but mentions apearance of first leg fitting PSEUDICINES, which is lost on original drawing. Classification by Simon also support placing this genus in PSEUDICIINES.
DESCRIPTION. [I repeat below the original description by Peckham & Peckham, 1894: 118.] "The falces are short but stout and project obliquely forward. The fang is rather long. The maxillae are rounded and are more than twice as long as the labium. The sternum is twice as long as wide. The femur, patella and tibia of the first leg are thickened, especially the femur.
The color of the cephalothorax is dark brown; the eye region is blackish.
The upper surface is thinly covered with mixed red and white hairs. A
wide, white band encircles the lower sides and below this is a black line.
The clypeus and palpus are covered with white hairs. The abdomen is
light brown, with a dark region down the middle, which consists of two
triangular figures on the anterior and middle part and some rounded
spots behind. There is a transverse, curved, white band at the anterior
end of the abdomen, and another across the middle; and the brown spots
at the posterior end are surrounded by white.
The femur, patella and tibia
of the first leg are thickened, especially the femur. The legs are brown, the first pair being the darkest.
The falces are dark brown. The under surface is dark brown, thinly
covered with white hairs. Length, 4.8. Length of cephalothorax, 2; width of cephalothorax,
1.2. Legs [length order] is 1432; first pair plainly stoutest." Drawings below constitute integral part of the genus definition.
REFERENCES. Proszynski Ann. zool.,1984 - 3, 13: 350, f 12-14; 1992a -
44, 8: 102, f 104-105.
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