The new Andean jumping spider genus Urupuyu and its placement within a revised classification of the Amycoida (Araneae: Salticidae)
Author
Ruiz, Gustavo R. S.
Author
Maddison, Wayne P.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4040
3
251
279
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4040.3.1
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1175-5326
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Subfamily
Thiodininae
Simon, 1901
Thiodineae
Simon, 1901
: 454 (
Type
genus:
Thiodina
Simon, 1900
).
Hyetusseae
Simon, 1903
: 859 (
Type
genus:
Hyetussa
Simon, 1902
), NEW SYNONYMY. Arachnomureae
Mello-Leitão, 1917
(
Type
genus:
Arachnomura
Mello-Leitão, 1917
), NEW SYNONYMY.
Monophyly:
Members of this group, formerly known as the Hyetusseae, are united by the male chelicerae being excavated on the inner edge, similar to the euophryines
Mexigonus
Edwards
and
Pensacola
Peckham & Peckham. Some
species (e.g., cf.
Arachnomura
sp. “HTCHV” and cf.
Arachnomura
sp. “HTLIN”) in life wave black-tipped front legs like ant-mimicking salticids, though their bodies do not appear particularly ant-like, whereas others (e.g.
Atomosphyrus
) are more convincing mimics. The placement of
Atomosphyrus
within the thiodinines, suggested by the excavated male chelicerae (see
Galiano 1966b
: fig. 13) indicates a third origin of ant mimicry, independently from the sarindines and simonellines.
Agelista
and
Titanattus
are closely related to each other, sharing similar palps and body forms, including the posterior eye row on elevations of the carapace. They also have modified tips of front legs and slight ant-mimic behavior, similar to what is observed in other thiodinines. On the strength of 28S, the combined molecular data puts
Titanattus
(and implicitly the very similar
Agelista
) not with thiodinines (
Fig. 37
), but embedded within the sarindines. However, the individual 16SND1 (
Fig. 41
) and actin 5C (
Fig. 43
) analyses disagree. Based on this and the presence of excavated chelicerae and other similarities, we place them tentatively in the
Thiodininae
(
Fig. 36
). Future work may clarify whether this makes the group paraphyletic or polyphyletic, and how to correct it.