Emertonius

Emertonius is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae.[1]

Emertonius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Emertonius
Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1]
Species

See text.

Taxonomy

Emertonius was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[1] It was variously treated as a synonym of Myrmarachne or a separate genus from 1978 onwards. Jerzy Prószyński revalidated the genus in 2018,[2] and it is accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of August 2020.[1]

When included in Myrmarachne, it was placed in subfamily Salticinae (clade Salticoida, tribe Myrmarachnini) in Maddison's 2016 classification of the family Salticidae.[3] Prószyński placed the separate genus in his informal group "myrmarachnines".[2]

Species

As of August 2020, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:[1]

  • Emertonius exasperans (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) (type species) – Indonesia (Java, Bali)
  • Emertonius koomeni Prószyński, 2018 – Malaysia (Borneo)
  • Emertonius malayanus (Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003) – Malaysia (peninsula, Borneo), Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
  • Emertonius palawensis Prószyński, 2018 – Philippines
  • Emertonius shelfordi (Peckham & Peckham, 1907) – Malaysia (Borneo)

References
  1. "Gen. Emertonius Peckham & Peckham, 1892", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-08-28
  2. Prószyński, J. (2018), "Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae)", Ecologica Montenegrina, 16: 130–179, doi:10.37828/em.2018.16.12
  3. 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
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