Stichius
| Stichius | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Section: | Dionycha |
| Superfamily: | Salticoidea |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Stichius Thorell, 1890 |
| Species: | S. albomaculatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Stichius albomaculatus Thorell, 1890 | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 species | |
Stichius is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its single described species is found in Sumatra.
The species is only known from a single male described in 1890. From the drawing of the male palp in Proszynski (1984), Stichius appears to be close to Harmochirus.[1]
The species name is taken from Greek mythology (Στιχίος, a commander of the Athenians in the Trojan war in Homer's Iliad).
Footnotes
- ↑ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 273
References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
Further reading
- Thorell, T. (1890). Aracnidi di Nias e di Sumatra raccolti nel 1886 dal Sig. E. Modigliani. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 30: 5-106.
- Prószyński, J. (1984): Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Wyzsza Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna, Siedlcach 2: 1-177.
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