Marchena

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Marchena
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Male Marchena minuta in Humboldt County, California
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Marchena
Species:
M. minuta
Binomial name
Marchena minuta

Marchena is a genus of jumping spiders only found in the United States. Its only described species, M. minuta, [1] dwells on the barks of conifers along the west coast, especially California, Washington and Nevada. [2]

Contents

It forms a monophyletic group with the genera Afraflacilla , Pseudicius and Festucula . [3]

Description

This species can easily be distinguished from others in its range by the tubercles on the first femur of its first legs. [2] M. minuta has a body length of about 4 mm.

Name

The genus name is probably derived from the Spanish city of Marchena, Seville.[ citation needed ] As witnessed by other generic names, the describers had a habit of naming taxa after places unrelated to the species' distribution. The species name is Latin for "small, minute".

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Salticidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  2. 1 2 Maddison, Wayne. 1995. Marchena. Marchena minuta. Version 1 January 1995 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Marchena_minuta/2986/1995.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
  3. Zabka & Grey 2002

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