Pseudeuophrys Explained

Pseudeuophrys is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1912. The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "pseudo-" (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: ψευδής), meaning "false", and the salticid genus Euophrys. It was briefly synonymized with Euophrys,^[1] but this decision was later reversed.^{[2] [3]}

Species

it contains ten species, found only in Europe, Asia, and the United States:^[4]

• Pseudeuophrys erratica (Walckenaer, 1826) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus to East Russia, China, Korea, Japon. Introduced to USA
• Pseudeuophrys iwatensis (Bohdanowicz & Prószyński, 1987) – Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
• Pseudeuophrys lanigera (Simon, 1871) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus. Introduced to USA
• Pseudeuophrys nebrodensis Alicata & Cantarella, 2000 – Spain, Italy (Sicily)
• Pseudeuophrys obsoleta (Simon, 1868) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, China
• Pseudeuophrys pascualis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Israel
• Pseudeuophrys perdifumo van Helsdingen, 2015 – Italy
• Pseudeuophrys rhodiensis Schäfer, 2018 – Greece (Rhodes)
• Pseudeuophrys talassica (Logunov, 1997) – Kyrgyzstan
• Pseudeuophrys vafra (Blackwall, 1867) – Azores, Madeira, Europe (Portugal to Russia)

External links

• Photograph of P. vafra
• Photography of P. lanigera

Notes and References

1. Prószyński. J.. 1962. Spiders of the Zawada forestry on the Notec River. Fragmenta Faunistica, Warsaw. 10. 13. 208. Jerzy Prószyński.
2. Żabka. M.. 1997. Salticidae: Pająki skaczące (Arachnida: Araneae). Fauna Polski. 19. 76. Marek Michał Żabka.
3. Logunov. D. V.. 1998. Pseudeuophrys is a valid genus of the jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Revue Arachnologique. 12. 111.
4. Gen. Pseudeuophrys Dahl, 1912. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-09-12. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.