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
Gophoinae
Simon, 1901
Gophoeae
Simon, 1901
: 588 (
Type
genus:
Gophoa
Simon, 1901
, synonymized with
Cotinusa
Simon, 1900
by
Galiano 1963
: 360).
(
Thiodininae
sensu
Simon 1901
: 545
;
Petrunkevitch 1928
: 185
;
Roewer 1954
;
Edwards
et al.
2005
;
Hill 2012
; see also comments under
Thiodininae
).
Monophyly:
Long mistaken as the “
Thiodininae
”, this group is well supported by molecular data (
Figs 36
,
37
,
39, 41, 43
) and is easily recognized by a series of morphological features, though each of the features is missing in some species of this group. First, most species have two pairs of bulbous setae on the ventral surface of the tibia of the front leg, unique among spiders, thought to enhance sensation for the handling of prey (
Hill 2012
). Second, many species have a carapace/femur I stridulatory apparatus (
Maddison 1987
), but it is not clear whether this structure evolved on one of the branches within this subfamily or is a synapomorphy reversed in subgroups. Third, most species have a well developed RTA accompanied by a sinuous RvTA in the male palp (e.g.
Galiano 1963
: pl. XL, figs 1–4). The embolus is also articulated with the tegulum by a well-developed hematodocha (
Fig. 52
), though whether this is a synapomorphy or a plesiomorphy is unclear.
We note that the molecular results (
Figs 37
,
41
) support the separation of
Nilakantha
and
Colonus
by Bustamante
et al.
(2015).