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
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39
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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
Irura Peckham & Peckham, 1901
Type species.
Irura pulchra
Peckham & Peckham, 1901 from Sri Lanka by original designation.
Comments.
The genus
Irura
Peckham & Peckham, 1901 is placed in the subtribe
Simaethina
Simon, 1903 together with other 12 genera and is represented by 18 species mainly distributed from East and Southeast Asia (
Maddison 2015
;
WSC 2022
). It is rather poorly understood because the generotype is known from single-sex and lacks key diagnostic drawings. According to the morphological character, the genus is similar to
Stertinius
Simon, 1890 in having the PME closer to AME than to PLE, three pairs of conspicuous muscle depressions on the dorsum of abdomen (
Logunov 2022
), but it differs by the sub-oval carapace and the well-developed (extending exceed the cymbial base) cymbial apophysis mostly possesses a pointed terminus, whereas almost square carapace, less-developed (not extending exceed the cymbial base) cymbial apophysis without pointed terminus in
Stertinius
(see
Metzner 2022
).