Orientattus, Caleb, 2020

Caleb, John T. D., 2020, A new jumping spider genus from South and Southeast Asia (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippini: Orientattus), Peckhamia 200 (1), pp. 1-5 : 1-2

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5093418

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3E27B27E-5613-48A4-83BE-07C54D413217

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3596E9C3-063E-4C53-AF36-DD0758579C7B

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:3596E9C3-063E-4C53-AF36-DD0758579C7B

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Orientattus
status

gen. nov.

Orientattus View in CoL , gen. nov.

Type species: Schenkelia aurantia Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018

Etymology: Orientattus (Latinized noun, m.) is a combination of Orient (referring to the Oriental region) and attus (old genus group name applied to jumping spiders).

Diagnosis: Orientattus species can be distinguished from other plexippines by the following combination of characters: short curved embolus, rounded bulbus, bifurcated RTA ( Figures 3-5 View Figures 1-5 ; also see Figures 1B, D View Figures 1-5 in Peng & Li, 2003), curved ‘C-shaped’ copulatory openings ( Fig 8 View Figures 6-9 ; also see Figure 19 in Żabka, 1990 and Figure 401 in Żabka 1985), absence of copulatory ducts, spermathecae double chambered with large anterior and small posterior chamber ( Figure 9 View Figures 6-9 ; also see Figure 4C View Figures 1-5 in Song et al., 1997, Figure 20 in Żabka, 1990 and Figure 402 in Żabka, 1985) and two large lateral pockets on the posterior border of the epigynum ( Figure 8 View Figures 6-9 ; also see Figure 4B View Figures 1-5 in Song et al., 1997, Figure 19 in Żabka, 1990 and Figure 401 in Żabka, 1985). Diagnostic characters for Evarcha, Evawes , Orientattus , Pancorius and Schenkelia are compared in Table 1.

Distribution: South and Southeast Asia ( China, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

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