Omoedus

Omoedus is a genus of jumping spiders (family Salticidae).[1]

Omoedus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Omoedus Thorell, 1881[1]
Type species
O. niger Thorell, 1881
Species
7, see text

Taxonomy

Omoedus was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.[1][2] In 2015, Junxia Zhang and Wayne Maddison synonymized Pystira with Omoedus,[3] but this was rejected by rejected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2017,[4] and both genera are accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of August 2020.[1][5]

The genus is placed in the subfamily Salticinae, tribe Euophryini.[6]

Species

As of August 2019 it contains seven species, found on Fiji, in Papua New Guinea, on the Aru Islands, and the Moluccas:[1]

• Omoedus cordatus Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1996 – Fiji
• Omoedus insultans (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Omoedus kulczynskii Prószyński, 1971 – New Guinea
• Omoedus niger Thorell, 1881 (type) – New Guinea
• Omoedus piceus Simon, 1902 – Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea
• Omoedus sexualis (Strand, 1911) – Indonesia (Aru Is.)
• Omoedus torquatus (Simon, 1902) – Indonesia (Moluccas)

References

1. "Gen. Omoedus Thorell, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
2. Thorell, T. (1881). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 17: 1–727.
3. Zhang, Junxia & Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny". Zootaxa. 3938 (1): 001–147. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1.
4. Prószyński, J. (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 12: 1–133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1.
5. "Gen. Pystira Simon, 1901". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
6. 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.