Nicylla is a monotypic genus of Sumatran jumping spiders containing the single species, Nicylla sundevalli. It was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890,[2] and is only found on Sumatra.[1] Briefly considered a synonym of Thiania,[3] it was elevated back to genus status in 2017.[4]
Nicylla | |
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Nicylla sundevalli | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Nicylla Thorell, 1890[1] |
Species: | N. sundevalli
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Binomial name | |
Nicylla sundevalli Thorell, 1890
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Thiania, circumscribed to include Nicylla, is placed in the tribe Euophryini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Nicylla Thorell, 1890". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1890). "Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 30: 132–172.
- ^ Zhang, J. X.; Maddison, W. P. (2015). "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny". Zootaxa. 3938 (1): 32. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1. PMID 25947489.
- ^ Prószyński, J. (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 12: 77. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1.
- ^ Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID 85680279.