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
- Padilla ambigua Ledoux, 2007 — Réunion
- Padilla armata Peckham & Peckham, 1894 — Madagascar
- Padilla astina Andriamalala, 2007 — Madagascar
- Padilla boritandroka Andriamalala, 2007 — Madagascar
- Padilla cornuta (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) — Madagascar
- Padilla foty Andriamalala, 2007 — Madagascar
- Padilla graminicola Ledoux, 2007 — Réunion
- Padilla griswoldi Andriamalala, 2007 — Madagascar
- Padilla javana Simon, 1900 — Java
- Padilla lavatandroka Andriamalala, 2007 — Madagascar
- Padilla maingoka Andriamalala, 2007 — Madagascar
- Padilla manjelatra Andriamalala, 2007 — Madagascar
- Padilla mazavaloha Andriamalala, 2007 — Madagascar
- Padilla mihaingo Andriamalala, 2007 — Madagascar
- Padilla mitohy Andriamalala, 2007 — Madagascar
- Padilla ngeroka Andriamalala, 2007 — Madagascar
- Padilla ombimanga Andriamalala, 2007 — Madagascar
- Padilla sartor Simon, 1900 — Madagascar
Footnotes
- ↑ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 276f
References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
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