Kakameganula

Kakameganula is a genus of East African jumping spiders (family Salticidae) with the sole species Kakameganula holmi. It was first described by Angelika Dawidowicz & Wanda Wesołowska in 2016,[2] and has only been found in Kenya.[1]

Kakameganula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Kakameganula
Wesolowska, 2020[1]
Species:
K. holmi
Binomial name
Kakameganula holmi
(Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016)[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Kakamega holmi Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016, invalid; genus name preoccupied by Kakamega de Mann, Burton & Lennerstedt, 1978

Dawidowicz and Wesołowska originally called the genus "Kakamega". However, this name had already been used for a bird genus, Kakamega de Mann, Burton & Lennerstedt, 1978,[3] and in 2020, they published the replacement name Kakameganula.[1] They placed the genus in subtribe Thiratoscirtina,[2] tribe Aelurillini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[4]

References
  1. "Gen. Kakameganula (Dawidowicz & Wesolowska, 2016)". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
  2. Dawidowicz, A.; Wesolowska, W. (2016). "Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Kenya collected by Åke Holm". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa. 66 (3): 437–466. doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2016.66.3.010.
  3. Mann, C.F.; Burton, P.J.K. & Lennerstedt, I. (1978). "A re-appraisal of the systematic position of Trichastoma poliothorax (Timaliinae, Muscicapidae)". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 98: 131–140. Cited in Wells, D.R.; Andrew, P. & van den Berg, A.B. (2001). "Systematic notes on Asian birds. 21.Babbler jungle: a re-evaluation of the 'pyrrogenys' group of Asian pellorneines (Timaliidae)". Zool. Verh. Leiden. 335: 235–252. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.729.3493.
  4. 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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