Marpissa

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Marpissa
Marpissa muscosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Marpissa
C. L. Koch, 1846[1]
Type species
M. muscosa
(Clerck, 1757)
Species

51, see text

Synonyms[1]

Marpissa is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846.[5] The name is derived from Marpissa, an ancient Greek village.

Species[edit]

As of June 2019 it contains fifty-one species, found in South America, Asia, Europe, the United States, Cameroon, on the Polynesian Islands, and the Greater Antilles:[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Marpissa C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  2. ^ Barnes, R. D. (1958). "North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Salticidae)". American Museum Novitates (1867): 3.
  3. ^ Yaginuma, T. (1955). "Revision of scientific names of Japanese spiders". Atypus. 8: 14.
  4. ^ Logunov, D. V. (2009). "On Roeweriella balcanica, a mysterious species of Marpissa from the Balkan Peninsula (Araneae, Salticidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 37: 9. doi:10.5431/aramit3702.
  5. ^ Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. , Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88. pp. 1–234.

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