A new genus and nine species of jumping spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Salticidae)
Author
Wang, Cheng
Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization in the Fanjing Mountain Region, Tongren University, Tongren, Guizhou 554300, China & Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Ecology of Tropical Islands, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou 571158, China
Author
Li, Shuqiang
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3290-5416
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
lisq@ioz.ac.cn
text
ZooKeys
2022
2022-08-18
1118
39
72
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1118.89337
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1118.89337
1313-2970-1118-39
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Genus
Philates Simon, 1900
Type species.
Philates grammicus
Simon, 1900 from Philippines by original designation.
Comments.
The genus
Philates
is belonging to the tribe
Ballini
and is represented by ten species distributed from Southeast Asia to Papua New Guinea (
Maddison 2015
;
WSC 2022
). A recent re-defined of the genus was also provided by
Benjamin (2004)
, who diagnosed the genus by the absence of carapace protuberance, and the presence of leaf-like setae ventrally on tibiae I. However, certainly, the genus definition is too broad and that has also been noted by
Benjamin (2004)
, who mentioned the Papuan New Guinea species could be divided into another genus. Herein, a proper definition of the genus is not discussed, and we placed
Philates zhoui
sp. nov. into the genus due to it possesses the leaf-like setae ventrally on tibiae I and shares a similar carapace shape with the generotype.