''Marchena'' is a

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jumping spiders Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiderscomprising 13% of spider species. Jumping s ...

only found in the United States. Its only described species, ''M. minuta'', dwells on the barks of

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s along the west coast, especially

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and

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.Maddison, Wayne. 1995. Marchena. Marchena minuta. Version 1 January 1995 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Marchena_minuta/2986/1995.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/ It forms a

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group with the genera '' Afraflacilla'', ''

Pseudicius ''Pseudicius'' is a genus of the jumping spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1885. The name is combined of Greek ''pseudo'' "false" and the salticid genus name ''Icius''. The small genus '' Wesolowskana'' (formerly known as ''Luxuria'') sh ...

'' and ''

Festucula ''Festucula'' is a genus of Salticidae, jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon, Eugène Louis Simon in 1901. Species it contains ten species, found only in Africa and Israel: *''Festucula australis'' Lawrence, 1927 – Democra ...

''.Zabka & Grey 2002

Description

This species can easily be distinguished from others in its range by the tubercles on the first femur of its first legs. ''M. minuta'' has a body length of about 4 mm.

Name

The genus name is probably derived from the Spanish city of

Marchena, Seville Marchena is a town in the Province of Seville in Andalusia, Spain. From ancient times to the present, Marchena has come under the rule of various powers. Marchena is a service center for its surrounding agricultural lands of olive orchards and fie ...

. As witnessed by other generic names, the describers had a habit of naming taxa after places unrelated to the species' distribution. The species name is

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for "small, minute".

Notes

References

* (2002): Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, XVI. New Species of '' Grayenulla'' and ''Afraflacilla''. ''Records of the Australian Museum'' 54: 269–274
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* (2009)

version 9.5. ''American Museum of Natural History''.

External links

* Awesome Spiders

* Salticidae.org

{{Taxonbar, from=Q962353 Salticidae Spiders of the United States Monotypic Salticidae genera