Simonurius

Simonurius is a genus of South American jumping spiders that was first described by María Elena Galiano in 1988.[2] The name is a reference to arachnologist Eugène Simon.

Simonurius
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Simonurius
Galiano, 1988[1]
Type species
S. gladifer
(Simon, 1901)
Species

4, see text

Species

As of August 2019 it contains four species, found only in Colombia, Argentina, and Venezuela:[1]

  • Simonurius campestratus (Simon, 1901) – Venezuela
  • Simonurius expers Galiano, 1988 – Argentina
  • Simonurius gladifer (Simon, 1901) (type) – Argentina
  • Simonurius quadratarius (Simon, 1901) – Venezuela, Colombia

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Simonurius Galiano, 1988". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. Galiano, M. E. (1988). "Revision de los géneros del grupo Hurieae (Araneae, Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 15: 285–301.


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