Pochytoides Explained

Pochytoides is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska in 2020.^[1]

Taxonomy

The group was first described by Berland and Millot in 1941 as a subgenus of the genus Pochyta.^[2] It was elevated to a full genus by Wanda Wesołowska in 2018.^[3] However, neither name was valid as no type species had been given. Wesołowska corrected this in 2020, designating Pochyta poissoni.

Like Pochyta, Pochytoides is placed in the tribe Aelurillini in the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.

Species

the genus contained eleven species. All species are known from Guinea and/or Ivory Coast:^[4]

• Pochytoides lamottei (Wesołowska, 2018)
• Pochytoides mirabilis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
• Pochytoides monticola (Wesołowska, 2018)
• Pochytoides obstipa (Wesołowska, 2018)
• Pochytoides patellaris (Wesołowska, 2018)
• Pochytoides perezi (Berland & Millot, 1941)
• Pochytoides poissoni (Berland & Millot, 1941)
• Pochytoides securis (Wesołowska, 2018)
• Pochytoides spinigera (Wesołowska, 2018)
• Pochytoides tonkoui Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
• Pochytoides tournieri Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022

Notes and References

1. Wesołowska . Wanda . 2020 . Authorship of the generic name Pochytoides (Araneae, Salticidae) . Bionomina . 18 . 1 . 56 . 10.11646/bionomina.18.1.3. 213486796 .
2. Berland . Lucien . Millot . Jacques . 1941 . Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides . Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris . 12 . 297–423.
3. Wesołowska . Wanda . 2018 . A revision of the genus Pochytoides Berland & Millot, 1941 (Araneae: Salticidae), with descriptions of six new species . . 418 . 1–26 . 10.5852/ejt.2018.418. free .
4. Web site: Gen. Pochytoides Wesołowska, 2020 . 17 October 2022 . World Spider Catalog . Natural History Museum Bern.