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Padilla (spider)

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Padilla
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Padilla
Peckham & Peckham, 1894[1]
Type species
P. armata
Peckham & Peckham, 1894
Species

19, see text

Padilla is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1894.[2] Most males have a characteristic long, forward projecting process on each chelicera that looks like a lance that is bent near the tip. The exception is P. javana, that doesn't have this feature.

Proszynski drew the genitalia of both genders in 1987, and they resemble those of Marengo.[3]

Species

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As of August 2019 it contains nineteen species, most endemic to Madagascar, and one species only occurring on Java:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Padilla Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  2. ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1894). "Spiders of the Marptusa group". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 85–156.
  3. ^ Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. pp. 276f.