Vailimia is a genus of Asian jumping spiders. The type species was described in 1907 from a single male about 6 millimetres (0.24 in) long. It was originally thought to be close to Harmochirus, but the male pedipalp, chelicera, and cephalothorax drawn by Proszynski in 1984, and information gained from later collected specimens indicates otherwise.[2] Subsequently, five more species have been identified. It may be a synonym for Pancorius.[3]
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| Vailimia cf. ajmerensis from Rajasthan, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Vailimia Kammerer, 2006[1] |
| Type species | |
| Vailima masinei Peckham & Peckham, 1907
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Name
editThe genus was originally named Vailima after the name of the last residence of Robert Louis Stevenson and the village where it is situated. The genus name Vailima was erected by Peckham & Peckham in 1907. However, the name was misspelled Vailimia by Prószyński in 2003.[4] The alternate name Vailimia in 2006 was suggested by C. F. Kammerer[4] as the name was found to be preoccupied by the fish genus Vailima.
Species
editMost species are found in Borneo, though Vailimia longitibia was first identified in China,[5] and Vailimia ajmerensis and Vailimia jharbari have been described from India. As of June 2021[update] it contains six species, all found in Asia:[1][6]
- Vailimia ajmerensis Caleb & Jangid, 2020 – India
- Vailimia bakoensis Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Borneo
- Vailimia jharbari Basumatary, Caleb & Das, 2020 – India
- Vailimia jianyuae Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Borneo
- Vailimia longitibia Guo, Zhang & Zhu, 2011 – China
- Vailimia masinei (Peckham & Peckham, 1907) (type) – Borneo
References
edit- ^ a b Bern, Natural History Museum (2019). "Gen. Vailimia Kammerer, 2006". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
- ^ Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society.
- ^ Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A Phylogenetic Classification of Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". The Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. JSTOR 24717307. S2CID 85680279.
- ^ a b Kammerer, C. F. (2006). "Notes on some preoccupied names in Arthropoda". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 31: 269–271.
- ^ Guo, J.Y.; Zhang, F.; Zhu, M.S. (2011). "One newly recorded genus and one new species of the family Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China". Acta Arachnologica Sinica. 20 (1): 1–3.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Basumatary, Paris; Caleb, John, T.D.; Sangeeta, D.A.S.; Jangid, Ashish K.; Kalita, Jatin; Brahma, Dulur (2020). "First record of the genus Vailimia Kammerer, 2006 from India, with the description of two new species (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina)". Zootaxa. 2020 Jun 10 (1): 4790(1):zootaxa.4790.1.11. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4790.1.11. PMID 33055862. S2CID 222839494.
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Further reading
edit- Prószyński, J. (1984). "Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae)". Wyzsza Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna, Siedlcach. 2: 1–177.
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