Petemathis

Petemathis is a genus of Caribbean jumping spiders that was first described by Jerzy Prószyński & Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold in 2012.[2]

Petemathis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Petemathis
Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012[1]
Type species
P. portoricensis
Species

5, see text

Species

As of August 2019 it contains five species, found only in Cuba and on the Greater Antilles:[1]

  • Petemathis luteopunctata (Petrunkevitch, 1930)Puerto Rico
  • Petemathis minuta (Petrunkevitch, 1930) – Puerto Rico
  • Petemathis portoricensis (Petrunkevitch, 1930) (type) – Puerto Rico
  • Petemathis tetuani (Petrunkevitch, 1930) – Puerto Rico
  • Petemathis unispina (Franganillo, 1930)Cuba

References

  1. "Gen. Petemathis Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  2. Prószyński, J.; Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2012). "Description of some Salticidae (Aranei) from the Malay archipelago. II. Salticidae of Java and Sumatra, with comments on related species". Arthropoda Selecta. 21: 29–60.


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