Asemoneinae is a

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s (family Salticidae). It was created in 2015 by

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. Most species are found in

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. The subfamily initially had five genera, but ''

Hindumanes ''Hindumanes'' is a genus of jumping spiders (family Salticidae) found in India. It was first described by Dmitri Logunov in 2004. The name Hindumanes is a portmanteau of "Hinduism", the dominant religion of India, and Lyssomanes, the genus ''H. ...

'' was later transferred to the subfamily

Lyssomaninae Lyssomaninae is a subfamily of jumping spiders. It includes four genera, three from the New World. Description Members of the subfamily Lyssomaninae are mostly green or yellow, and have long legs compared to other salticids. The anterior later ...

Description

Members of the subfamily Asemoneinae are translucent and long-legged relative to most other salticids. They resemble members of the subfamilies

Onomastinae ''Onomastus'' is a genus of Asian jumping spiders (family Salticidae) that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900. It is the only genus in the subfamily Onomastinae. Description ''Onomastus'' species are delicate, translucent spiders ...

and

''sensu'' Madison, 2015. The posterior median eyes are unusually central for salticids, being distinctly closer to the midline than is the inner edge of the anterior lateral eyes.

Taxonomy

In 2015,

divided the subfamily Lyssomaninae, as

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in 1980 by Wanless, into three subfamilies,

, Asemoneinae and

''s.s.'' Maddison included five genera. Molecular data united the three sampled genera, '' Asemonea'', '' Goleba'' and '' Pandisus''. Two genera, ''

'' and ''

Macopaeus ''Macopaeus'' is a genus of jumping spiders endemic to Madagascar. It contains only one species, ''Macopaeus spinosus''. Two other species ('' M. celebensis'' Merian, 1911 and '' M. madagascarensis'' Peckham & Peckham, 1903) were described in th ...

'', were included based on previous classifications. In 2017, ''Hindumanes'', whose

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was originally placed in ''Lyssomanes'', was moved to Lyssomaninae ''s.s.'', on the basis of the similarity of the male

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Genera

, four genera were placed in the subfamily: *'' Asemonea'' O. P.-Cambridge, 1869 *'' Goleba'' Wanless, 1980 *''

'' Simon, 1900 *'' Pandisus'' Simon, 1900

References

{{taxonbar, from=Q64682717 Salticidae Spider subfamilies