Proszynskia

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Proszynskia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Proszynskia
Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019 [1]
Type species
Viciria diatreta
(Simon, 1902)
Species
  • Proszynskia anusuae(Tikader & Biswas, 1981)
  • Proszynskia diatreta(Simon, 1902)

Proszynskia is a small genus of south Asian jumping spiders erected by N. Kanesharatnam and Benjamin in 2019 after a molecular phylogenetic study of south Asian spiders showed the relationship between two species previously belonging to Marpissa and Phintella . [2] [1] They are large for jumping spiders, growing up to 7 to 9 millimetres (0.28 to 0.35 in) long. The thin abdomen has a yellow stripe between two black stripes. [2]

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The genus is named after Jerzy Prószyński, a major contributor to the knowledge of jumping spiders, [2] and as of April 2022 it contains only two species: P. anusuae and P. diatreta . [1] The single most likely cladogram shows that Phintelloides is sister to Phintella, with Proszynskia sister to both: [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Proszynskia Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2019". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2022-04-08.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kanesharatnam, N.; Benjamin, S. P. (2019). "Multilocus genetic and morphological phylogenetic analysis reveals a radiation of shiny South Asian jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae)". ZooKeys (839): 1–81. Bibcode:2019ZooK..839....1K. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.839.28312 . PMC   6482596 . PMID   31065224.

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