genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
spider
Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...
s in the
jumping spider
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family (biology), family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 species description, described genus, genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spide ...
family Salticidae.
Taxonomy
''Emertonius'' was first described by
George and Elizabeth Peckham
George Williams Peckham (March 23, 1845 – January 10, 1914) and Elizabeth Maria Gifford Peckham (December 19, 1854 – February 11, 1940) were a married couple who were early American teachers, Taxonomy (biology), taxonomists, ...
in 1892. It was variously treated as a
synonym
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of ''
Myrmarachne
''Myrmarachne'' is a genus of ant-mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by W. S. MacLeay in 1839. They are commonly called ant-mimicking spiders, but they are not the only spiders that have this attribute. The name is a combination ...
'' or a separate genus from 1978 onwards.
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 Sc ...
revalidated the genus in 2018, and it is accepted by the
World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature.
The WSC began as a series of ...
.
When included in ''Myrmarachne'', it was placed in subfamily
Salticinae
Salticinae is a subfamily of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). It includes over 90% of the known species of jumping spiders. The subfamily is divided into two unranked clades: Amycoida and Salticoida.
Description
Members of the subfamily Sal ...
(clade
Salticoida
Salticoida is an unranked clade of the jumping spider family Salticidae. It is the larger and more widespread of the two subdivisions of the "typical" jumping spiders (subfamily Salticinae), occurring effectively world-wide. Its sister clade is ...
, tribe Myrmarachnini) in Maddison's 2016 classification of the family Salticidae. Prószyński placed the separate genus in his informal group "myrmarachnines".
Species
, the
World Spider Catalog
The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature.
The WSC began as a series of ...
accepted the following extant species:
*'' Emertonius exasperans'' (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) (
type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
) – Indonesia (Java, Bali)
*''
Emertonius koomeni
''Emertonius'' is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae.
Taxonomy
''Emertonius'' was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892. It was variously treated as a synonym of ''Myrmarachne'' or a separate genus from ...
'' Prószyński, 2018 – Malaysia (Borneo)
*''
Emertonius malayanus
''Emertonius'' is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae.
Taxonomy
''Emertonius'' was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892. It was variously treated as a synonym of ''Myrmarachne'' or a separate genus from ...
'' (Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003) – Malaysia (peninsula, Borneo), Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
*''
Emertonius palawensis
''Emertonius'' is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae.
Taxonomy
''Emertonius'' was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892. It was variously treated as a synonym of ''Myrmarachne'' or a separate genus from ...
'' Prószyński, 2018 – Philippines
*''
Emertonius shelfordi
''Emertonius'' is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae.
Taxonomy
''Emertonius'' was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892. It was variously treated as a synonym of ''Myrmarachne'' or a separate genus from ...