Padilla (spider)
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| Genus: | Padilla Peckham & Peckham, 1894
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| Padilla armata Peckham & Peckham, 1894
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| 19 species | |
Padilla is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Almost all described species are endemic to Madagascar, with one species only occurring on Java.
Most males in this genus have a characteristic very long, forward projecting process on each chelicera, which looks like a lance which has been bent near the tip. It is missing in P. javana. The genitalia of both sexes of a Padilla species are drawn in Proszynski (1987), and resemble those of Marengo.[1]
Species
As of July 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:[2]
- Padilla ambigua Ledoux, 2007 – Réunion
- Padilla armata Peckham & Peckham, 1894 – Madagascar
- Padilla astina Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla boritandroka Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla cornuta (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) – Madagascar
- Padilla foty Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla graminicola Ledoux, 2007 – Réunion
- Padilla griswoldi Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla javana Simon, 1900 – Java
- Padilla lavatandroka Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla maingoka Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla manjelatra Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla mazavaloha Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla mihaingo Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla mitohy Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla ngeroka Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla ombimanga Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla rhizophorae Dierkens, 2014 – Comoros
- Padilla sartor Simon, 1900 – Madagascar
References
- ^ Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. pp. 276f.
- ^ World Spider Catalog (2017). "Gen. Padilla Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
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