Platypsecas

Platypsecas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Platypsecas
Caporiacco, 1955[1]
Species:
P. razzabonii
Binomial name
Platypsecas razzabonii

Platypsecas is a monotypic genus of Venezuelan jumping spiders containing the single species, Platypsecas razzabonii. It was first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1955,[2] and is only found in Venezuela.[1] The type locality is El Junquito in the Capital District.[2] Gustavo R. S. Ruiz and Antonio D. Brescovit though the genus was "possibly in Euophryinae";[3] Wayne P. Maddison followed their "tentative suggestion" and classified the genus in the tribe Euophryini within the clade Saltafresia and subfamily Salticinae.[4]

  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Platypsecas Caporiacco, 1955". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  2. ^ a b Caporiacco, L. di (1955). "Estudios sobre los aracnidos de Venezuela. 2a parte: Araneae". Acta Biologica Venezuelica. 1: 419–421.
  3. ^ Ruiz, Gustavo R. S.; Brescovit, Antonio D. (2005). "Notes on the Venezuelan Jumping spiders described by Caporlacco (Araneae, Salticidae)". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 22 (3): 756.
  4. ^ Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". The Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 248, 279. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292.