Platycryptus (spider)

Taxobox
name = "Platycryptus"

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image_caption = ""Platycryptus" undatus"
image_width = 240px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Marpissinae
tribus = Marpissini
genus = "Platycryptus""
genus_authority = Hill, 1979 ("non" Kriechbaumer, 1893: preoccupied)
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Platycryptus
diversity = 4 species
type_species = "Aranea undata"
type_species_authority = De Geer, 1778
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range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

"Platycryptus"" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Established in 1979, its name is preoccupied by a generic name for geline wasps described by Kriechbaumer in 1893. Though Kriechbaumer's "Platycryptus" is nowadays generally included in "Ethelurgus" (described by Arnold Förster in 1869), junior synonyms that are senior homonyms still overrule junior homonyms, except when explicitly ruled otherwise by the ICZN.

pecies

* ""Platycryptus" arizonensis" (Barnes, 1958) — USA
* ""Platycryptus" californicus" (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) — North, Central America
* ""Platycryptus" magnus" (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) — Mexico to Brazil
* ""Platycryptus" undatus" (De Geer, 1778) — North America

References

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

External links

* [http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/subimages.cfm?SUB=11513 Picture of "Platycryptus" species] (free for noncommercial use)