Athamas (spider)

For the mythological Greek king, see Athamas.

Athamas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Athamas O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 [1]
Type species
A. whitmeei O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877
Species
7, see text

Athamas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1877. ^[2] The name is derived from Athamas, the king of Orchomenus in Greek mythology.

Species

As of June 2019 ^[update] it contains seven species, found on Vanuatu, Palau, in Papua New Guinea, on the Polynesian Islands, and Tahiti: ^[1]

• Athamas debakkeri Szüts, 2003 – Papua New Guinea (New Ireland)
• Athamas guineensis Jendrzejewska, 1995 – New Guinea
• Athamas kochi Jendrzejewska, 1995 – Tahiti
• Athamas nitidus Jendrzejewska, 1995 – New Guinea
• Athamas proszynskii Ono, 2011 – Palau Is.
• Athamas tahitensis Jendrzejewska, 1995 – French Polynesia (Society Is.: Tahiti)
• Athamas whitmeei O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 (type) – Vanuatu, Polynesia

References

1. "Gen. Athamas O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1877). "On some new species of Araneidea, with characters of two new genera and some remarks on the families Podophthalmides and Dinopides". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 45 (3): 557–578.

Further reading

• Szűts, T. (2003). "On remarkable jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Papua New Guinea" (PDF). Folia Entomologica Hungarica. 64: 41–58. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27.