Neon (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Neon"

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image_caption = "Neon valentulus"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
order = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Euophryinae
tribus = Chalcoscirtini
genus = "Neon"
genus_authority = Simon, 1876
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Neon
diversity = 24 species
type_species = "Salticus reticulatus"
type_species_authority = Blackwall, 1853
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range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

"Neon" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its 24 described species occur mostly in Eurasia, with some species found in North and South America. One species, "N. convolutus", is also found in Algeria.

pecies

* "Neon avalonus" Gertsch & Ivie, 1955 — USA
* "Neon caboverdensis" Schmidt & Krause, 1998 — Cape Verde Islands
* "Neon convolutus" Denis, 1937 — France, Azores, Algeria
* "Neon ellamae" Gertsch & Ivie, 1955 — USA
* "Neon kiyotoi" Ikeda, 1995 — Japan
* "Neon kovblyuki" Logunov, 2004 — Ukraine
* "Neon levis" (Simon, 1871) — Palearctic
* "Neon minutus" Zabka, 1985 — Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan
* "Neon muticus" (Simon, 1871) — Corsica
* "Neon nelli" Peckham & Peckham, 1888 — USA, Canada
* "Neon nigriceps" Bryant, 1940 — Cuba
* "Neon ningyo" Ikeda, 1995 — China, Japan
* "Neon nojimai" Ikeda, 1995 — Japan
* "Neon pictus" Kulczynski, 1891 — Southeastern Europe to Central Asia
* "Neon pixii" Gertsch & Ivie, 1955 — USA
* "Neon plutonus" Gertsch & Ivie, 1955 — USA
* "Neon punctulatus" Karsch, 1880 — Bolivia
* "Neon rayi" (Simon, 1875) — Southern, Central Europe to Kazakhstan
* "Neon reticulatus" (Blackwall, 1853) — Holarctic
* "Neon robustus" Lohmander, 1945 — Ireland, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Spain
* "Neon sumatranus" Logunov, 1998 — Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea
* "Neon valentulus" Falconer, 1912 — Europe to Central Asia
* "Neon wangi" Peng & Li, 2006 — China
* "Neon zonatus" Bao & Peng, 2002 — Taiwan

References

* (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.5. "American Museum of Natural History".

External sources

* [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/neon/laev-kph.htm Photograph of "N. levis"]
* [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/neon/nelli-gb.htm Picture of "N. nellii"]
* (2002). Six New Species of Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Hui-Sun Experimental Forest Station, Taiwan. "Zoological Studies" 41(4): 403-411. [http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/41.4/403.pdf PDF] - includes "Neon zonatus"