Metaphidippus pernix

Metaphidippus pernix is a species of spider in the Salticidae (jumping spider) family found in Guatemala.[1]

Metaphidippus pernix
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Metaphidippus
Species:
M. pernix
Binomial name
Metaphidippus pernix
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Dendryphantes pernotus Petrunkevitch, 1911
  • Metaphidippus pernotus (Petrunkevitch, 1911) – erroneous

Taxonomy

The species was first described in 1901, as Metaphidippus pernix, by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge.[3] In 1911, Alexander Petrunkevitch decided to transfer the species to the genus Dendryphantes. However, Dendryphantes pernix already existed as the name for a different species (Dendryphantes pernix Peckham & Peckham, 1901, now Beata pernix[4]). Accordingly, Petrunkevitch coined the replacement specific name pernotus.[5] In 1971, Jerzy Prószyński returned the species to Metaphidippus under its original name Metaphidippus pernix.[6][1] The species has also been wrongly called Metaphidippus pernotus (Petrunkevitch, 1911), as in earlier versions of the World Spider Catalog.[2]

References
  1. "Taxon details Metaphidippus pernix F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-03-06
  2. Platnick, N.I., "Salticidae", World Spider Catalog, version 15, retrieved 2017-03-06
  3. Pickard-Cambridge, F.O. (1901), "Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones", Biologia Centrali-Americana, 2, pp. 193–312 (Metaphidippus pernix is at p. 264.)
  4. "Taxon details Beata pernix (Peckham & Peckham, 1901)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-03-06
  5. Petrunkevitch, A. (1911), "A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc.", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 29: 1–791 (Dendryphantes pernotus is at p. 639.)
  6. Prószyński, J. (1971), "Catalogue of Salticidae (Aranei) specimens kept in major collections of the world", Annales Zoologici, Warszawa, 28: 367–519 (Metaphidippus pernix is at p. 434.)


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