Donaldius

Donaldius
Dorsal view of a female Donaldius lucidus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Dendryphantinae
Genus: Donaldius
Chickering, 1946
Species: D. lucidus
Binomial name
Donaldius lucidus
Chickering, 1946
Diversity
1 species

Donaldius is a genus of jumping spiders with a single described species, Donaldius lucidus, which is endemic to Panama. D. lucidus is known only from a single female specimen collected in El Valle in July 1936.[1] Gustavo Ruiz has suggested that Donaldius may be closely related to Metaphidippus based on molecular analysis of a specimen collected in Costa Rica.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Chickering, Arthur M. (September 1946). "The Salticidae (Spiders) of Panama". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 97: 278–281.
  2. ↑ Ruiz, Gustavo Rodrigo Sanches (2010). Análise cladística de Dendryphantinae (Araneae: Salticidae) (doctoral thesis). Universidade de São Paulo. pp. 90–92.


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