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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
Araneus muscosus
Clerck, 1757[1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]
  • Hyctia Simon, 1876
  • Icidella Bösenberg & Strand, 1906
  • Onondaga Peckham & Peckham, 1909
  • Roeweriella Kratochvíl, 1932

Marpissa is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

Name

The genus name is derived from Marpissa, an ancient Greek village.

Species

As of November 2015, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Gen. Marpissa C. L. Koch, 1846", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2015-11-14
  • Barnes, R.D. (1958) "North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Salticidae)". American Museum novitates 1867 PDF Abstract (Marpissa, Metacyrba, Menemerus, Maevia)