Orientattus
| Orientattus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Orientattus Caleb, 2020[1] |
| Type species | |
| Schenkelia aurantia (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018)
| |
| Species | |
|
4, see text | |
Orientattus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders erected by John Caleb in 2020. It is placed in the tribe Plexippini, within the Salticoida clade of Salticinae.[2] In 2018 and 2019, a species found in Sri Lanka and India was placed in the otherwise African genus Schenkelia under the name "Schenkelia aurantia",[3][4] however, this species differed significantly from the type species of the genus Schenkelia. Three other species, placed in different genera, were found to resemble Schenkelia aurantia, and these were all combined to create the genus, Orientattus.[2]
Compared to related genera, Orientattus species are distinguished by features of both the male and female genitalia. The male palpal bulb is rounded with a short curved embolus and is borne on a pedipalp with a bifurcated retrolateral tibial apophysis (RTA). Females have C-shaped copulatory openings, no copulatory ducts and double-chambered spermathecae with a large anterior chamber and a smaller posterior chamber. There are also two large 'pockets' on the sides of the posterior border of the epigyne.[2]
Species
[edit]As of March 2022[update] it contains four species:[1]
- O. aurantius (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018) (type) – India, Sri Lanka
- O. bicuspidatus (Peng & Li, 2003) – Vietnam
- O. hongkong (Song, Xie, Zhu & Wu, 1997) – China (Hong Kong)
- O. minutus (Żabka, 1985) – China, Nepal, Vietnam
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Orientattus Caleb, 2020". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
- ^ a b c Caleb, J. T. D. (2020). "A new jumping spider genus from South and Southeast Asia (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippini: Orientattus)". Peckhamia. 200 (1): 1–5.
- ^ Caleb, J. T. D.; Acharya, S. (2019). "First record of the genus Schenkelia Lessert 1927 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India". Acta Arachnologica. 68 (2): 73–75. doi:10.2476/asjaa.68.73. S2CID 214494178.
- ^ Kanesharatnam, N.; Benjamin, S. P. (2018). "A new genus and three new species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Sri Lanka". European Journal of Taxonomy (444): 1–24. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.444. S2CID 90810420.
Further reading
[edit]- 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.
- Peng, X. J.; Li, S. Q. (2003). "New localities and one new species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from northern Vietnam". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 51: 21–24.
 | This article related to jumping spiders (Salticidae) is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |