Nicylla

Nicylla
Nicylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Euophryinae
Genus: Nicylla
Thorell, 1890
Species: N. sundevalli
Binomial name
Nicylla sundevalli
Thorell, 1890
Diversity
1 species

Nicylla is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its only species, N. sundevalli, occurs only in Burma.[1]

Thorell described a male and a female in 1890. While Eugène Simon was unsure where to place the genus, Proszynski (1968) drew the male pedipalp, chelicera and habitus, which indicate that the species is close to Thiania bhamoensis, which also occurs in Burma.[1]

Name

The species is named in honor of Swedish zoologist Carl Jakob Sundevall, who described a number of spider species and genera in the 1830s.

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Murphy & Murphy 2000: 272

References

  • Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.


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