Thianitara Explained

Thianitara is a genus of Southeast Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1903.[1] it contains only two species, found in Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia: T. spectrum and T. thailandica.[2] It was briefly considered a junior synonym of Thiania[3] until 2017, when it was revived by Jerzy Prószyński.[4]

Prószyński placed Thianitara in his informal group "euophryines".[4] When synonymized with Thiania, it was placed in the large tribe Euophryini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae in Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Simon, E. 1903. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973. Eugène Simon.
  2. Gen. Thianitara Simon, 1903. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-09-27. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. 2019-09-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20190927163929/https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3010. live.
  3. Zhang. J. X.. Maddison. W. P.. 2015. Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny. Zootaxa. 3938. 1. 32. Wayne Maddison. 10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1. 25947489.
  4. Prószyński. J.. 2017. Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina. 12. 77. 10.37828/em.2017.12.1. Jerzy Prószyński. free.