Vailimia
Vailimia is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by C. F. Kammerer in 2006.[2] It was first described in 1907 from a single male about 6 millimetres (0.24 in) long. It was originally thought to be close to Harmochirus, but the male pedipalp, chelicera, and cephalothorax drawn by Proszynski in 1984, and information gained from later collected specimens indicates otherwise.[3] Subsequently, three more species have been identified. It may be a synonym for Pancorius.[4]
| Vailimia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Vailimia Kammerer, 2006[1] |
| Type species | |
| V. masinei (Peckham & Peckham, 1907) | |
| Species | |
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Name
The genus was originally named Vailima after the name of the last residence of Robert Louis Stevenson and the village where it is situated. However, the name was misspelled Vailimia by Prószyński in 2003.[2] It was subsequently renamed to Vailimia in 2006 due to a conflict with a fish genus, Vailima. The original name Vailima was used by Peckham & Peckham in 1907.
Species
Most species are found in Borneo, though Vailimia longitibia was first identified in China. As of August 2019 it contains four species, found in Asia:[1]
- Vailimia bakoensis Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Borneo
- Vailimia jianyuae Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Borneo
- Vailimia longitibia Guo, Zhang & Zhu, 2011 – China
- Vailimia masinei (Peckham & Peckham, 1907) (type) – Borneo
References
- "Gen. Vailimia Kammerer, 2006". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
- Kammerer, C. F. (2006). "Notes on some preoccupied names in Arthropoda". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 31: 269–271.
- Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society.
- Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A Phylogenetic Classification of Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". The Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. JSTOR 24717307.
Further reading
- Prószyński, J. (1984). "Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae)". Wyzsza Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna, Siedlcach. 2: 1–177.