Pachyballus
Pachyballus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[2] While most are found in Africa and nearby regions, one species is endemic to New Caledonia. The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek παχύς ("pachys"), meaning "thick", and the salticid genus Ballus.
| Pachyballus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Pachyballus Simon, 1900[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. transversus Simon, 1900 | |
| Species | |
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7, see text | |
Pachyballus rotundus was transferred to its own genus Planiemen in 2007.
Species
As of August 2019 it contains seven species and one subspecies, found only in Africa and on New Caledonia:[1]
- Pachyballus castaneus Simon, 1900 – South Africa
- Pachyballus cordiformis Berland & Millot, 1941 – Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe
- Pachyballus flavipes Simon, 1910 – Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Tanzania, Kenya
- Pachyballus f. aurantius Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
- Pachyballus gambeyi (Simon, 1880) – New Caledonia
- Pachyballus oyo Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria
- Pachyballus transversus Simon, 1900 (type) – Guinea-Bissau, Congo, Zanzibar, South Africa
- Pachyballus variegatus Lessert, 1925 – East Africa
References
- "Gen. Pachyballus Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
- Simon, E. (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 44: 381–407.
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