Pseudicius arabicus

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Pseudicius arabicus
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pseudicius
Species:
P. arabicus
Binomial name
Pseudicius arabicus
(Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994)

Pseudicius arabicus is a jumping spider species in the genus Pseudicius that lives in Afghanistan. Egypt, Iran, and Yemen.[1]

The species was originally discovered by Wanda Wesołowska and Tony van Harten in Yemen and described in 1994 and named Afraflacilla arabica.[2] It was merged with Pseudicius braunsi. discovered by Wesołowska in 1996, and moved to the genus Pseudicius with the species name arabicus by Dmitri Logunov and Mehrdad Zamanpoore in 2005.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ World Spider Catalog (2017). "Pseudicius arabicus (Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994)". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  2. ^ Wesołowska, W.; van Harten, A. (1994). "The jumping spiders (Salticidae, Araneae) of Yemen'". Sana'a: Yemeni-German Plant Protection Project. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ Logunov, D. V.; Zamanpoore, M. (2005). "Salticidae (Araneae) of Afghanistan: an annotated check-list, with descriptions of four new species and three new synonymies". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 13: 217–232.
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