Zenodorus (spider)

Zenodorus
Z. orbiculatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Zenodorus
Peckham & Peckham, 1886
Type species
Attus d'urvillii
Species

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Diversity
23 species
Synonyms

Zenodorus is a genus of the jumping spiders distributed from the Moluccas to Australia, including several islands of the Pacific.[2] It was once considered a junior synonym of Omoedus,[3] but this was later rejected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2017.[4] At least one species, Z. orbiculatus, specializes on hunting ants.[5]

Prószyński placed Zenodorus in his informal group "euophryines".[4] When synonymized with Omoedus, it was placed in the large tribe Euophryini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae in Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae.[6]

  1. ^ Żabka, M. (1988). "Salticidae (Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, III". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa. 41: 421–479.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference WSC_g4656 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Zhang, J. X.; Maddison, W. P. (2012). "New euophryine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae)". Zootaxa. 3491 (1): 1–74. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3491.1.1.
  4. ^ a b Prószyński, J. (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 12: 1–133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1.
  5. ^ "Salticid Ant Eater - Zenodorus orbiculatus". Brisbane Insects and Spiders. Archived from the original on 2009-10-26. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Madd15 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).