Dendroicius

Dendroicius is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae with the sole species Dendroicius hotaruae, found in China. It was first described in 2020 by Y.J. Lin and S.Q. Li.[2][1] The authors did not place the genus into a taxon within the Salticidae, other than distinguishing it from Icius.[3]

Dendroicius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: incertae sedis
Genus: Dendroicius
Lin & Li, 2020[1]
Species:
D. hotaruae
Binomial name
Dendroicius hotaruae
Lin & Li, 2020[1]

References

  1. "Taxon details Dendroicius hotaruae Lin & Li, 2020", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-08-30
  2. "Gen. Dendroicius Lin & Li, 2020", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-08-30
  3. Lin, Y.J. & Li, S.Q. (2020), "Two new genera and eight new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China", ZooKeys, 952: 95–128, doi:10.3897/zookeys.952.51849


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