Ansienulina

Ansienulina is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae. It was first described in 2015 by Wanda Wesołowska. As of 2017, it contains only one species, Ansienulina mirabilis, found in Kenya, Angola, and Namibia.[1]

Ansienulina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Ansienulina
Wesołowska, 2015[1]
Species:
A. mirabilis
Binomial name
Ansienulina mirabilis
Wesołowska, 2015[1]

Wesołowska placed the genus in the subfamily Thiratoscirtinae,[2] which Maddison reduced to the subtribe Thiratoscirtina in the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[3]

References

  1. "Salticidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-03-22.
  2. Wesołowska, W. (2015). "Ansienulina, a new genus of jumping spiders from tropical Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Thiratoscirtinae)". African Invertebrates. 56 (2): 477–482. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0216.
  3. Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292.


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