Onomastus
Female O. kanoi
Male O. kanoi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Onomastinae
Genus: Onomastus
Simon, 1900[1]
Type species
O. nigricaudus
Simon, 1900[1]
Species

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Onomastus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders (family Salticidae) that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[2] It is the only genus in the subfamily Onomastinae.[3]

Description

Onomastus species are delicate, translucent spiders, with long legs compared to most other members of the family Salticidae. Males have highly complex palpal bulbs. Two clades have been distinguished: in species from Southeast Asia, the palpal bulb has a broad conductor; in those from South Asia it has a medial branch on the median apophysis. Like species of the subfamilies Lyssomaninae and Asemoneinae, the anterior lateral eyes form a separate row from the anterior median eyes.[3] The genus was originally diagnosed on the basis of the arrangement of the eyes.[2]

Taxonomy

The genus Onomastus was first described by Eugène Simon in 1900. He placed it in the "Attidae",[2] the name he then used for the family Salticidae. It was later placed in a broadly defined subfamily Lyssomaninae, although by the 1980s it was agreed that this subfamily consisted of three groups.[4] When Wayne Maddison divided the subfamily into three in 2015, the genus was placed in its own subfamily, Onomastinae.[3]

Species

As of July 2021, it contains seventeen species, found only in Asia:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Onomastus Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  2. 1 2 3 Simon, E. (1900). "Etudes arachnologiques. 30e Mémoire. XLVII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 69: 27–61. Footnote, p. 29
  3. 1 2 3 Maddison, Wayne P. (November 2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID 85680279.
  4. Galiano, María Elena (1984). "New species of Lyssomanes Hentz, 1845 (Araneae, Salticidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 6 (6): 268–276. Retrieved 2020-08-20.


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