Corusca

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Corusca
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Eupoinae
Genus: Corusca
Zhou & Li, 2013 [1]
Type species
C. gracilis
Zhou & Li, 2013
Species

10, see text

Corusca is a genus of Chinese jumping spiders that was first described by Y. Y. Zhou & S. Q. Li in 2013. [2]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains ten species, found only in China: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Corusca Zhou & Li, 2013". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  2. Zhou, Y. Y.; Li, S. Q. (2013). "Two new genera of jumping spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Salticidae)". Zootaxa. 3712: 1–84. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3712.1.1. PMID   25320769.