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
Sitticinae
Simon, 1901
Sitticeae
Simon, 1901
: 577, 1053 (
Type
genus:
Sitticus
Simon, 1901
).
Sitticinae
:
Petrunkevitch 1928
: 205;
Roewer 1954
;
Prószyński 1976
.
Monophyly and relationships:
Sitticines are easily recognized among amycoids by the loss of the retromarginal tooth (e.g.
Galiano 1987
). Sitticines are also distinctive for the fourth leg being much longer than the relatively short third leg. Their endites are convergent, lacking prominent expansion distally. Molecular data strongly support the subfamily’s monophyly (
Figs 36
,
37
,
39, 41
). They also suggest that
Aillutticus
is the sister group to
Jollas
+
Sitticus
, although the monophyly of
Sitticus
cannot be assured, as we have only two species included in the analyses.