Marengo Peckham & Peckham, 1892

Wang, Cheng & Li, Shuqiang, 2022, A new genus and nine species of jumping spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Salticidae), ZooKeys 1118, pp. 39-72 : 39

Genus Marengo Peckham & Peckham, 1892

Type species.

Marengo crassipes Peckham & Peckham, 1892 from Sri Lanka by original designation.

Comments.

Marengo , a tribe Baviini genus, contains ten species distributed in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and China ( Maddison 2015; WSC 2022). A recent re-defined of the genus was provided by Benjamin (2004), who diagnosed the genus by the presence of ventral, leaf-like scales on tibiae I and the accessory gland of copulatory ducts. However, even within a genus, the copulatory organs in the Ballini look alike and are very often useless for supraspecific diagnoses ( Azarkina and Haddad 2020). And so, the above definition could not be accurate. Herein, the definition of the genus is not discussed, and we assigned the following two new species to Marengo because they are closely similar to some species of the genus.