Cantikus v-notatus

Cantikus v-notatus is a species of spider in the family Pholcidae. It is found from Myanmar to Indonesia.[1]

Cantikus v-notatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Cantikus
Species:
C. v-notatus
Binomial name
Cantikus v-notatus
(Thorell, 1878)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pholcus v-notatus Thorell, 1878
  • Pholcus dentifrons Thorell, 1898
  • Pholcus quinquenotatus Huber, 2011 (see § Taxonomy)
  • Cantikus quinquenotatus (Huber, 2011)

Taxonomy

The species was originally described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1878 as Pholcus v-notatus, the "v" referring to the shape of the mark on the cephalothorax. Thorell wrote "∧ nigro in parte thoracica notato", 'marked with black ∧ in thoracic part'.[2][1] In 2011, Huber published a classification of the family Pholcidae in which he used the specific name "quinquenotatus" for this species,[3] expanding Thorell's "v" to the Latin word for five (V being 5 in Roman numerals). The same version of the specific name was used when the species was transferred to the new genus Cantikus in 2018 as a result of further molecular phylogenetic analysis.[4] The World Spider Catalog uses Thorell's original form of the name, noting that the "v" refers to a mark,[1] and so not to the numeral.

See also

References
  1. "Taxon details Cantikus v-notatus (Thorell, 1878)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2021-01-09
  2. Thorell, T. (1878), "Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari", Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 13: 1–317, p. 163
  3. Huber, B.A. (2011), "Phylogeny and classification of Pholcidae (Araneae): an update", Journal of Arachnology, 39: 211–222
  4. Huber, B.A.; Eberle, J. & Dimitrov, D. (2018), "The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae)", ZooKeys, 789: 51–101, doi:10.3897/zookeys.789.22781


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