Laufeia

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Laufeia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Laufeia
Simon, 1889[1]
Type species

Simon, 1889[1]
Species

See text.

Diversity
14 species
Synonyms[1]
  • Orcevia Thorell, 1890
  • Junxattus Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012
  • Lechia Zabka, 1985

Laufeia is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae, with a mainly Asian distribution,[1] where they are found on tree trunks and branches or among leaf litter.[2]

Description[]

Laufeia species are mostly small, hairy, brownish spiders. The chelicera usually has a tooth with two cusps on the rear-facing edge. The male generally has a slightly hardened plate (scutum) on the upper surface of the abdomen. The genitalia vary considerably between species; for example, the male palpal bulb has either a long or short embolus, which may or may not be coiled.[2]

Taxonomy[]

The genus Laufeia was erected by Eugène Simon in 1889 for the type species ,[1] which had been collected in Yokohama, Japan. Simon did not explain the origin of the genus name.[3] In Norse mythology, Laufeia was the mother of the god Loki.

Four more Laufeia species were known to Andrzej Bohdanowicz and Jerzy Prószyński in 1987; they doubted that three of them belonged in the genus.[4] In 2012, Prószyński and Christa Deeleman-Reinhold split off some Laufeia species into the genera Orcevia and Junxattus, noting the diversity of genital structures. A molecular and morphological study in 2015 showed that the original circumscription of Laufeia constituted a strongly supported clade, and Junxia Zhang and Wayne Maddison restored all the species to Laufeia, arguing that strong sexual selection could produce genital diversity even in closely related species.[2]

Species[]

As of April 2017, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Simon, 1889 (type species) – China, Korea, Japan
  • (Urquhart, 1888) – New Zealand
  • Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Malaysia
  • (Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012) – Sumatra
  • (Thorell, 1890) – Sumatra
  • Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – China
  • (Thorell, 1890) – Sumatra, Java
  • (Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012) – Java
  • Lei & Peng, 2012 – China
  • (Simon, 1901) – Malaysia, Java
  • Song, Gu & Chen, 1988 – China
  • Ikeda, 1998 – Japan
  • Wu & Yang, 2008 – China
  • Laufeia squamata (Zabka, 1985) – China, Vietnam

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "Gen. Laufeia Simon, 1889", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-04-28
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Zhang, J.X. & Maddison, W.P. (2015), "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny", Zootaxa, 3938 (1): 1–147, doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1, PMID 25947489
  3. ^ Simon, E. (1889), "Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXXIII. Descriptions de quelques espèces receillies au Japon, par A. Mellotée", Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 8: 248–252
  4. ^ Bohdanowicz, A. & Prószyński, J. (1987), "Systematic studies on East Palaearctic Salticidae (Araneae), IV. Salticidae of Japan", Annales Zoologici, Warszawa, 41: 43–151

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