Delimitation and Description of 19 New Genera, a Subgenus and a Species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World

Prószyński, Jerzy

doi:10.37828/em.2016.7.1

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“…The genus Sitticus s. lat. was recently split into a number of separate genera (Prószyński 2016(Prószyński , 2017, following an earlier subdivision of the European members into several subgenera by Lohmander (1944). This action was part of a larger series of revisions that has recently come under severe criticism (Kropf et al 2019).…”

Section: Centromerita and Tallusia Are Junior Synonyms Of Centromerusmentioning

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Barcode Taxonomy at the Genus Level

Breitling

2019

Ecol. Mont

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DNA barcode sequencing has rapidly become one of the most powerful tools for biodiversity assessments. Beyond its original uses for the identification of animal species, including the discovery of cryptic diversity in difficult taxonomic groups, the growing public sequence datasets also offer opportunities for more wide-ranging applications. This contribution shows how barcode data can provide useful complementary information to assist taxonomic decision making at the genus level. An analysis of public barcode datasets for 10 diverse spider families, covering more than 3400 species and morphospecies, reveals numerous examples where sequence similarities either strongly support or convincingly refute recent controversial genus assignments. The following nomenclatorial changes are suggested based on a combined assessment of morphological evidence and the barcode analysis: Acantholycosa = Pardosa (syn. nov.); Piratula = Pirata (syn. nov.); Pulchellodromus, Philodromimus, Tibellomimus, Artanes, and Emargidromus = subgenera of Philodromus (stat. nov.); Cryptachaea riparia = Parasteatoda riparia (comb. nov.); Ohlertidion = Heterotheridion (syn. nov.); Saaristoa = Aphileta (syn. nov.); Aphileta microtarsa = Eulaira microtarsa (comb. conf.); Centromerita and Tallusia = Centromerus (syn. conf.); Obscuriphantes, Agnyphantes, and Acanthoneta = Poeciloneta (syn. nov.); Bolyphantes bipartitus = Poeciloneta bipartita (comb. nov.); Anguliphantes, Improphantes, Piniphantes, and Mansuphantes = Oryphantes (syn. nov.), Palliduphantes antroniensis = Oryphantes antroniensis (comb. nov.), Lepthyphantes nodifer = Oryphantes nodifer (comb. nov.), Hypositticus, Sittipub, Calositticus, Sittisax, Sittiflor, and Attulus = Sitticus (syn. nov.).

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Section: Centromerita and Tallusia Are Junior Synonyms Of Centromerusmentioning

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Barcode Taxonomy at the Genus Level

Breitling

2019

Ecol. Mont

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“…Based on the similarity of copulatory organs in some species groups of Myrmarachne (s.lat. ), Prószyński [2016b] have erected nine new genera, to which 34 Myrmarachne species have then been transferred. Of them, 24 species of Myrmarachne (s.str.)…”

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Taxonomic notes on some ant-mimicking jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from India

Caleb

2016

Arthropoda Selecta

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“…The appropriate name for this unified genus is Attulus, as it is far older than Sitticus, and has been used continuously, though for only a few species. Two proposals have been made to ignore priority and instead use Sitticus, the generic name used for most of the species until Prószyński's (2016Prószyński's ( , 2017 splitting. Prószyński himself had proposed to the ICZN in 2008 suppression of Attulus in favour of Sitticus, but in 2018 apparently withdrew that proposal (ICZN 2018).…”

Section: Genus Attulus Simon 1868 Restored (To Respect Its Prioritymentioning

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“…Until the last few years, most sitticines were placed in the single widespread and species-rich genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 (e.g., Platnick 2014 listed 84 species). Prószyński, who developed our understanding of north-temperate species in a series of papers (1968,1971,1973,1980), recently (2016, 2017a) partitioned this diversity into several genera: Sittipub Prószyński, 2016, Sittiflor Prószyński, 2017, Sittilong Prószyński, 2017, Sittisax Prószyński, 2017, Sittiab Prószyński, 2017, Attulus, and Sitticus. Prószyński did not intend this classification to be phylogenetic, but rather "pragmatic" (Prószyński 2017b), which is to say, not based on a conceptual justification.…”

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Sitticine jumping spiders: phylogeny, classification, and chromosomes (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticini)

Maddison

Derkarabetian

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The systematics of sitticine jumping spiders is reviewed, with a focus on the Palearctic and Nearctic regions, in order to revise their generic classification, clarify the species of one region (Canada), and study their chromosomes. A genome-wide molecular phylogeny of 23 sitticine species, using more than 700 loci from the arachnid Ultra-Conserved Element (UCE) probeset, confirms the Neotropical origins of sitticines, whose basal divergence separates the new subtribeAillutticina (a group of five Neotropical genera) from the subtribe Sitticina (five genera of Eurasia and the Americas). The phylogeny shows that most Eurasian sitticines form a relatively recent and rapid radiation, which we unite into the genus Attulus Simon, 1868, consisting of the subgenera Sitticus Simon, 1901 (seven described species), Attulus (41 described species), and Sittilong Prószyński, 2017 (one species). Five species of Attulus occur natively in North America, presumably through dispersals back from the Eurasian radiation, but an additional three species were more recently introduced from Eurasia. Attus palustris Peckham & Peckham, 1883 is considered to be a full synonym of Euophrys floricola C. L. Koch, 1837 (not a distinct subspecies). Attus sylvestris Emerton, 1891 is removed from synonymy and recognized as a senior synonym of Sitticus magnus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944. Thus, the five native Attulus in North America are Attulus floricola, A. sylvestris, A. cutleri, A. striatus, and A. finschi. The other sitticines of Canada and the U.S.A. are placed in separate genera, all of which arose from a Neotropical radiation including Jollas Simon, 1901 and Tomis F.O.Pickard-Cambridge, 1901: (1) Attinella Banks, 1905 (A. dorsata, A. concolor, A. juniperi), (2) Tomis (T. welchi), and (3) Sittisax Prószyński, 2017 (S. ranieri). All Neotropical and Caribbean “Sitticus” are transferred to either Jollas (12 species total) or Tomis (14 species). Attinella (three species) and Tomis are both removed from synonymy with Sitticus; the synonymy of Sitticus cabellensis Prószyński, 1971 with Pseudattulus kratochvili Caporiacco, 1947 is restored; Pseudattulus Caporiacco, 1947 is synonymized with Tomis. Six generic names are newly synonymized with Attulus and one with Attinella. Two Neotropical species are described as new, Jollas cupreussp. nov. and Tomis manabitasp. nov. Forty-six new combinations are established and three are restored. Three species synonymies are restored, one is new, and two are rejected. Across this diversity of species is a striking diversification of chromosome complements, with X-autosome fusions occurring at least four times to produce neo-Y sex chromosome systems (X1X2Y and X1X2X3Y), some of which (Sittisax ranieri and S. saxicola) are sufficiently derived as to no longer preserve the simple traces of ancestral X material. The correlated distribution of neo-Y and a base autosome number of 28 suggests that neo-Y origins occurred preferentially in lineages with the presence of an extra pair of autosomes.

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Delimitation and Description of 19 New Genera, a Subgenus and a Species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World

Cited by 43 publications

References 9 publications

Barcode Taxonomy at the Genus Level

Barcode Taxonomy at the Genus Level

Taxonomic notes on some ant-mimicking jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from India

Sitticine jumping spiders: phylogeny, classification, and chromosomes (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticini)

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