Platycryptus
Appearance
Platycryptus | |
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Platycryptus undatus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Platycryptus Hill, 1979[1] |
Type species | |
P. undatus (De Geer, 1778)
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Species | |
4, see text |
Platycryptus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by D. E. Hill in 1979.[2]
Species
As of August 2019[update] it contains four species, found only in North America, Central America, and Brazil:[1]
- Platycryptus arizonensis (Barnes, 1958) – USA
- Platycryptus californicus (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – North, Central America
- Platycryptus magnus (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – Mexico to Brazil
- Platycryptus undatus (De Geer, 1778) (type) – North America
References
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Platycryptus Hill, 1979". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ Hill, D. E. (1979). "The scales of salticid spiders". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 65 (3): 193–218. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1979.tb01091.x.
External links
- Platycryptus at Bugguide.net