Idastrandia
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Genus: | Idastrandia Strand, 1929
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Species: | I. orientalis
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Idastrandia orientalis Szombathy, 1915
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Pseudamycus orientalis |
Idastrandia is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Its only described species, I. orientalis, is endemic to Singapore.
Kálmán Szombathy described a single male in 1915, which is about five millimeters long. There are drawings in the original description, and the male pedipalp and unusual serrate cheliceral tooth has been drawn by Proszynski in 1983. It has still not been attached to any of the current salticid groups.[1]
Name
The genus is probably named after a relative of first describer Embrik Strand.
Footnotes
- ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 271
References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
Further reading
- Szombathy, K. (1915): Attides nouveaux appartenant aux collections du Musee national hongrois. Ann. hist.-nat. Mus. nat. Hung. 13: 474-475.
- Prószyński, J. (1983): Redescriptions of types of Oriental and Australian Salticidae (Aranea) in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Folia ent. hung. 44: 283-297.