Omoedus is a genus of jumping spiders (family Salticidae).[1]

Omoedus
Omoedus swiftorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Omoedus
Thorell, 1881[1]
Type species
O. niger
Thorell, 1881
Species

7, see text

Taxonomy

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Omoedus was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.[1][2] In 2015, Junxia Zhang and Wayne Maddison synonymized Pystira with Omoedus,[3] but this was rejected by rejected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2017,[4] and both genera are accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of August 2020.[1][5]

The genus is placed in the subfamily Salticinae, tribe Euophryini.[6]

Species

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As of August 2019 it contains seven species, found on Fiji, in Papua New Guinea, on the Aru Islands, and the Moluccas:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Gen. Omoedus Thorell, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  2. ^ Thorell, T. (1881). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 17: 1–727.
  3. ^ Zhang, Junxia & Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny". Zootaxa. 3938 (1): 001–147. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1. PMID 25947489.
  4. ^ Prószyński, J. (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 12: 1–133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1.
  5. ^ "Gen. Pystira Simon, 1901". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  6. ^ 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.