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| Epidelaxia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Epidelaxia Simon, 1902[1] |
| Type species | |
| E. albostellata Simon, 1902 | |
| Species | |
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Epidelaxia is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[2] Once considered completely endemic to Sri Lanka, additional species were discovered from Philippines in 2016 [3] and from India in 2025[4]
Species
[edit]As of June 2019[update] it contains four species, found only in Asia:[1]
- Epidelaxia albocruciata Simon, 1902 – Sri Lanka
- Epidelaxia albostellata Simon, 1902 (type) – Sri Lanka
- Epidelaxia falciformis Asima, Caleb, Prasad & Joseph, 2025 – India
- Epidelaxia maurerae Freudenschuss & Seiter, 2016 – Philippines
- Epidelaxia obscura Simon, 1902 – Sri Lanka
- Epidelaxia palustris Asima, Caleb, Prasad & Joseph, 2025 – India
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Gen. Epidelaxia Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
- ↑ Simon, E. (1902). "Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 46: 363–406.
- ↑ "Four new species of the jumping spiders from the Philippines, with description of the male of Phintella piatensis Barrion et Litsinger, 1995" (PDF). kmkjournals.com. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
- ↑ Asima, Ashraf; Caleb, John T. D.; Prasad, Gopal; Joseph, Mathew M. (2025-02-25). "First record of Epidelaxia Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae) in India, with descriptions of two new species from the Western Ghats". Zootaxa. 5590 (4): 595–600. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5590.4.10. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 40173916.
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