Marchena
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Marchena is a genus of jumping spiders only found in the United States. Its only described species, M. minuta,[1] dwells on the barks of conifers along the west coast, especially California, Washington and Nevada.[2]
It forms a monophyletic group with the genera Afraflacilla, Pseudicius and Festucula.[3]
Description
This species can easily be distinguished from others in its range by the tubercles on the first femur of its first legs.[2] M. minuta has a body length of about 4 mm.
Name
The genus name is probably derived from the Spanish city of Marchena, Seville.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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 Latin for "small, minute".
Notes
References
- <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>Zabka, Marek & Gray, Michael R. (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. PDF
- <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
- Awesome Spiders: Photographs of female and male
- Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings and distribution map of M. minuta
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- ↑ a b 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/
- ↑ Zabka & Grey 2002