Megaeupoa
Megaeupoa is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae.[1]
| Megaeupoa | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Eupoinae (?) |
| Genus: | Megaeupoa Lin & Li, 2020[1] |
| Species | |
Taxonomy
The genus was first described in 2020 by Y.J. Lin and S.Q. Li.[1] The authors did not explicitly assign the genus to a position within the Salticidae, although they stated that the name Megaeupoa referred to the "evolutionary relationship" of the genus (Megaeupoa means 'large Eupoa').[2] Eupoa is placed in the subfamily Eupoinae.[3]
Species
As of August 2020, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:[1]
- Megaeupoa gravelyi (Caleb, 2018) – India
- Megaeupoa yanfengi Lin & Li, 2020 – China
References
- "Gen. Megaeupoa Lin & Li, 2020", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-08-30
- 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
- Maddison, Wayne P. (2015), "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)", Journal of Arachnology, 43 (3): 231–292, doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292
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