Padilla (spider)

Padilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Ballinae
Genus: Padilla
Peckham & Peckham, 1894
Type species
Padilla armata
Peckham & Peckham, 1894
Species

see text

Diversity
19 species

Padilla is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Almost all described species are endemic to Madagascar, with one species only occurring on Java.

Most males in this genus have a characteristic very long, forward projecting process on each chelicera, which looks like a lance which has been bent near the tip. It is missing in P. javana. The genitalia of both sexes of a Padilla species are drawn in Proszynski (1987), and resemble those of Marengo.[1]

Species

Footnotes

  1. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 276f

References

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