Papuamyr

Papuamyr is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae. The two described species are all native to Papua New Guinea.[1]

Papuamyr
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Papuamyr
Maddison & Szűts, 2019[1]
Species

See text.

Taxonomy

The genus Papuamyr was erected in 2019 for two newly described species from Papua New Guinea. The genus is placed in the tribe Myrmarachnini,[2] part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae in Wayne Maddison's 2015 classification of the Salticidae.[3]

Species

As of September 2020, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:[1]

  • Papuamyr omhifosga Maddison & Szűts, 2019 – Papua New Guinea
  • Papuamyr pandora Maddison & Szűts, 2019 – Papua New Guinea

References

  1. "Gen. Papuamyr Maddison & Szűts, 2019", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-09-04
  2. Maddison, W.P. & Szűts, T. (2019), "Myrmarachnine jumping spiders of the new subtribe Levieina from Papua New Guinea (Araneae, Salticidae, Myrmarachnini)", ZooKeys, 842: 85–112, doi:10.3897/zookeys.842.32970
  3. 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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