Pystira

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

Pystira
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Tribe: Euophryini
Genus: Pystira
Simon, 1901[1]
Species

See text.

Taxonomy

The genus Pystira was erected by Eugène Simon in 1901 with the type species Pystira ephippigera, which he had originally placed in a different genus (Hadrosoma, no longer in use) when he first described it in 1885.[1] In 2015, Junxia Zhang and Wayne Maddison synonymized Pystira with Omoedus,[2] but this was rejected by rejected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2017,[3] and the genus is accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of August 2020.[1]

When synonymized with Omoedus, the genus was placed in the tribe Euophryini in Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae.[4] Prószyński placed the separated genus in his informal group euophryines.[3]

Species

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

  • Pystira cyanothorax (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
  • Pystira ephippigera (Simon, 1885) (type species) – Sumatra
  • Pystira karschi (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea, Aru Islands
  • Pystira nigripalpis (Thorell, 1877) – Sulawesi
  • Pystira versicolor Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan

References
  1. "Gen. Pystira Simon, 1901", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-08-28
  2. 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
  3. Prószyński, J. (2017), "Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)", Ecologica Montenegrina, 12: 1–133, doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1
  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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