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Padillothorus
''Padillothorus'' is a genus of jumping spiders in the family Salticidae containing the single species, ''Padillothorus elegans''. It was first described by Jerzy Prószyński in 2018, and has only been found in Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine .... In 1987, Prószyński synonymized the genus '' Padillothorax'', first described by Eugène Simon in 1901, with '' Stagetillus''. In 2017 and 2018, Prószyński restored ''Padillothorax'', and separated it from the new genus ''Padillothorus''. Simon had placed ''Padillothorax'' and ''Stagetillus'' in his group Bavieae, now the tribe Baviini in Maddison's 2015 classification of Salticidae. Since the male of ''Padillothorus elegans'' is unknown, Prószyński considered that classification to any group of genera w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padillothorax
''Padillothorax'' is a genus of southeastern Asian jumping spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1901. it contains only two species. Taxonomy First described by Eugène Simon in 1901, ''Padillothorax'' was synonymized with '' Stagetillus'' by Jerzy Prószyński in 1987. ''Stagetillus'' was placed in the tribe Baviini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae by Wayne Maddison in 2015, on the basis of molecular phylogenetic evidence, although only a single unidentified species of ''Stagetillus'' from Selangor was included in the analysis. In 2017, Prószyński recognized the genus again, but did not include the type species, ''Padillothorax semiostrinus'', so his action was not valid under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. He included this species in 2018, thus successfully reviving the genus. He also transferred a species included in ''Padillothorax'' by Reimoser in 1927 to a new genus ''Padillothorus'', leaving two species in ''Padillo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. '' Panthera leo'' (lion) and '' Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus '' Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. phylogenetic analysis should cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumping Spider
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among arthropods and use it in courtship, hunting, and navigation. Although they normally move unobtrusively and fairly slowly, most species are capable of very agile jumps, notably when hunting, but sometimes in response to sudden threats or crossing long gaps. Both their book lungs and tracheal system are well-developed, and they use both systems (bimodal breathing). Jumping spiders are generally recognized by their eye pattern. All jumping spiders have four pairs of eyes, with the anterior median pair being particularly large. Distinguishing characteristics Jumping spiders are among the easiest to distinguish from similar spider families because of the shape of the cephalothorax and their eye pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Prószyński
Jerzy Prószyński (born 1935 in Warsaw) is a Polish arachnologist specializing in systematics of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, a long-term employee of the Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities and the Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Biography In 1957 he completed his biological studies at the University of Warsaw. During his studies he was employed at the Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where he conducted research on spiders in the Kampinos Forest. Between 1963 and 1967 he lectured on zoology at the University of Ghana. In 1966 he obtained his Ph.D. at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. A year later he was given the opportunity to pursue a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, but he was refused a passport. In 1972 he was employed at the Higher School of Education in Siedlce (later the Siedlce University of Natural Scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
