Pseudomogrus Explained

Pseudomogrus is a genus of jumping spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1937.^[1]

Taxonomy

First described by Eugène Simon in 1937, Pseudomogrus was synonymized with Yllenus by Jerzy Prószyński in 1968. In 2016, Prószyński erected a new genus, Logunyllus, for some species of Yllenus. Logunyllus was declared a junior synonym of Pseudomogrus in 2019.

Under the synonym Logunyllus, Prószyński placed the genus in his informal group "yllenines", with Yllenus as a representative genus. In Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae, Yllenus is placed in the tribe Leptorchestini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.

Species

it contained the following species:^[2]

• Pseudomogrus albifrons (Lucas, 1846) — North Africa, Middle East
• Pseudomogrus albocinctus (Kroneberg, 1875) — Turkey to China
• Pseudomogrus algarvensis (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Portugal
• Pseudomogrus auriceps (Denis, 1966) — Libya
• Pseudomogrus bactrianus (Andreeva, 1976) — Tajikistan
• Pseudomogrus bakanas (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Kazakhstan
• Pseudomogrus bucharaensis (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
• Pseudomogrus caspicus (Ponomarev, 1978) — Russia (Europe), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
• Pseudomogrus dalaensis (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Kazakhstan
• Pseudomogrus dumosus Logunov & Schäfer, 2019 — Spain (Canary Islands)
• Pseudomogrus gavdos (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Canary Is., Algeria, Italy (Sardinia), Greece (Crete)
• Pseudomogrus guseinovi (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
• Pseudomogrus halugim (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Israel
• Pseudomogrus improcerus (Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994) — Yemen
• Pseudomogrus knappi (Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994) — Sudan, Yemen
• Pseudomogrus logunovi (Wesolowska & van Harten, 2010) — United Arab Emirates
• Pseudomogrus mirabilis (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
• Pseudomogrus mirandus (Wesolowska, 1996) — Turkmenistan
• Pseudomogrus nigritarsis (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Turkmenistan
• Pseudomogrus nurataus (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Uzbekistan
• Pseudomogrus pavlenkoae (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Kazakhstan
• Pseudomogrus pseudovalidus (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
• Pseudomogrus ranunculus (Thorell, 1875) — Algeria
• Pseudomogrus saliens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876) — North Africa, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
• Pseudomogrus salsicola (Simon, 1937) — France to Israel
• Pseudomogrus shakhsenem (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Turkmenistan
• Pseudomogrus squamifer (Simon, 1881) — Portugal, Spain
• Pseudomogrus tamdybulak (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Uzbekistan
• Pseudomogrus tschoni (Caporiacco, 1936) — Libya, Egypt, Israel, United Arab Emirates
• Pseudomogrus univittatus (Simon, 1871) — France, Turkey, possibly Turkmenistan
• Pseudomogrus validus (Simon, 1889) — Central Asia to Mongolia
• Pseudomogrus vittatus (Thorell, 1875) — Eastern Europe to Kazakhstan
• Pseudomogrus zaraensis (Logunov, 2009) — Turkey
• Pseudomogrus zhilgaensis (Logunov & Marusik, 2003) — Kazakhstan

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E.. 1937. Les Arachnides de France. Synopsis Générale et Catalogue des Espèces Françaises de l'Ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 5e et Derniére Partie. 979–1298.
2. Web site: Gen. Pseudomogrus Simon, 1937. World Spider Catalog. 2020-09-02. Natural History Museum Bern.