Panachraesta

Panachraesta is a monotypic genus of Sri Lankan jumping spiders containing the single species, Panachraesta paludosa. It was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900,[2] and is only found in Sri Lanka.[1] Until 2016, it was a synonym of Myrmarachne.[3]

Panachraesta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Panachraesta Simon, 1900[1]
Species:	P. paludosa
Binomial name
Panachraesta paludosa (Simon, 1900)

Jerzy Prószyński considered that there was confusion over the identity of specimens described as Panachraesta paludosa so the transfer to Myrmarachne should be rejected. There was some resemblance to the genus Toxeus. The species did appear to be part of Prószyński's informal group "myrmarachnines".[3] Myrmarachne is placed in tribe Myrmarachnini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[4]

References

1. "Gen. Panachraesta Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
2. Simon, E. (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 44: 381–407.
3. Prószyński, J. (2016). "Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world". Ecologica Montenegrina. 7: 4–32.
4. 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.