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Matinta Pardo
''Matinta'' is a genus of South American jumping spiders (family Salticidae). The largest number of species are found in Brazil. Taxonomy ''Matinta'' was first described by G. R. S. Ruiz, Wayne Maddison, Wayne Paul Maddison & María Elena Galiano in 2019. A re-examination of the holotype of the type species of the genus ''Mago (spider), Mago'' showed that the genus had been misinterpreted, so that species had been included in the genus that did not fit the diagnosis. Accordingly, Ruiz ''et al.'' created a new genus, ''Matinta'', to which most of the former ''Mago'' genera were transferred. ''Matinta'', like ''Mago'', was placed in the tribe Amycini, part of the Amycoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae. Species it contains nineteen species, found in Ecuador, Brazil, Guyana, Peru, and French Guiana: *''Matinta acutidens'' (Simon, 1900) (Type species, type) – Brazil, Guyana *''Matinta apophysis'' (Costa & Ruiz, 2017) – Brazil *''Matinta balbina'' (Patello & Ruiz, 2014) – Bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Maddison
Wayne Paul Maddison (born 1958) is a Canadian evolutionary biologist, arachnologist, and biological illustrator. He is Canada Research Chair in Biodiversity and a professor at the departments of zoology and botany at the University of British Columbia, and the Director of the Spencer Entomological Collection at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Education and career Maddison was born in London, Ontario and his interests in studying spiders started while he was a teenager exploring Lake Ontario. Maddison studied zoology at the University of Toronto, where he obtained his BSc in 1980. He went on to study at Harvard University in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, where he obtained his PhD in 1988 under the supervision of Herbert W. Levi. He was a NSERC postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley from 1988 to 1990, where he worked with Montgomery Slatkin. Maddison became an assistant professor and later associate professor at the University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |