Chirothecia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Chirothecia
Taczanowski, 1878[1]
Type species
C. clavimana
(Taczanowski, 1871)
Species

13, see text

Synonyms[1]

Chirothecia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1878.[3] Chirothecia is very similar to Bellota, but can be distinguished by the following characteristics: a much wider and taller cephalothorax (the width being 70–80% of the length and the height being 38–47% of the length); a much longer eye area (occupying 60–70% of the cephalothorax length); the posterior median eyes are always closer to the anterior lateral eyes than the posterior lateral eyes.[4]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains thirteen species, found only in South America and Panama:[1]

  • Chirothecia amazonica Simon, 1901 – Brazil
  • Chirothecia botucatuensis Bauab, 1980 – Brazil
  • Chirothecia clavimana (Taczanowski, 1871) (type) – Brazil, Guyana
  • Chirothecia crassipes Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru
  • Chirothecia daguerrei Galiano, 1972 – Argentina
  • Chirothecia euchira (Simon, 1901) – Brazil, Argentina
  • Chirothecia minima Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Argentina
  • Chirothecia rosea (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
  • Chirothecia semiornata Simon, 1901 – Brazil
  • Chirothecia soaresi Bauab, 1980 – Brazil
  • Chirothecia soesilae Makhan, 2006 – Suriname
  • Chirothecia uncata Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
  • Chirothecia wrzesniowskii Taczanowski, 1878 – Ecuador

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Chirothecia Taczanowski, 1878". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ↑ Galiano, M. E. (1972). "Revisión del género Chirothecia Taczanowski, 1878 (Araneae, Salticidae)". Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia. 4: 4.
  3. ↑ Taczanowski, L. (1878). "Les Aranéides du Pérou. Famille des Attides". Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 53: 278–374.
  4. ↑ Galiano, María Elena (1972). "Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. XIII. Revisión del género Bellota Peckham, 1892". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. 31 (83): 463–484.


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