Terralonus
| Terralonus | |
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| Male Terralonus californicus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Terralonus Maddison, 1996[1] |
| Type species | |
| T. mylothrus (Chamberlin, 1925)
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| Species | |
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7, see text | |
Terralonus is a genus of American jumping spiders that was first described by Wayne Paul Maddison in 1996.[2]
Species
[edit]As of August 2019[update] it contains seven species, found only in the United States:[1]
- Terralonus banksi (Roewer, 1951) – USA
- Terralonus californicus (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – USA
- Terralonus fraternus (Banks, 1932) – USA
- Terralonus mylothrus (Chamberlin, 1925) (type) – USA
- Terralonus shaferi (Gertsch & Riechert, 1976) – USA
- Terralonus unicus (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930) – USA
- Terralonus versicolor (Peckham & Peckham, 1909) – USA
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Terralonus Maddison, 1996". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
- ^ Maddison, W. P. (1996). "Pelegrina Franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus (Araneae: Salticidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 154: 215–368.
External links
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