Hermosa (spider)

Hermosa is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. It was first described in 1892 by George and Elizabeth Peckham. As of 2019, it contains 7 species.[1]

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

See text.

Synonyms
  • Myrmavola Prószyński, 2016 (junior synonym)

Taxonomy

First described in 1892 by George and Elizabeth Peckham, Hermosa was synonymized with Myrmarachne in 1901 by Eugène Simon. In 2016, Jerzy Prószyński split up Myrmarachne, creating nine new genera (all with names beginning "Myrm"). One of them was Myrmavola. Prószyński included Myrmavola volatilis in his new genus, but this is the type species of Hermosa, so Myrmavola is a junior synonym of Hermosa.[1][2]

Prószyński placed Myrmavola in his informal group "myrmarachnines". Myrmarachne sensu lato is placed in the tribe Myrmarachnini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[3]

Species

Hermosa comprises the following species:[1]

  • Hermosa andrewi (Wanless, 1978) – Congo, Angola
  • Hermosa brevichelicera (Yamasaki & Ahmad, 2013) – Borneo
  • Hermosa christae (Prószyński, 2001) – Borneo
  • Hermosa galianoae (Prószyński, 2001) – Borneo
  • Hermosa volatilis Peckham & Peckham, 1892 – Madagascar, China, Vietnam
  • Hermosa yamanei (Yamasaki, 2012) – Sulawesi
  • Hermosa yamasakii (Prószyński, 2016) – Malaysia (Borneo)

References
  1. "Gen. Hermosa Peckham & Peckham, 1892". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  2. Marusik, Y. M.; Blick, T. (2019). "Further new synonyms of jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 57: 89. doi:10.30963/aramit5717.
  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.


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