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Pandisus

Pandisus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.

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Pandisus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Asemoneinae
Genus: Pandisus
Simon, 19001
Type species
P. scalaris
Simon, 1900
Species

6, see text

Pandisus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.2

Species

As of August 2019 it contains six species, endemic to Madagascar, except for one, which is found only in India:1

  • Pandisus decorus Wanless, 1980Madagascar
  • Pandisus indicus Prószyński, 1992India
  • Pandisus modestus (Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889) – Madagascar
  • Pandisus parvulus Wanless, 1980 – Madagascar
  • Pandisus sarae Wanless, 1980 – Madagascar
  • Pandisus scalaris Simon, 1900 (type) – Madagascar
References

References

  1. "Gen. Pandisus Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  2. Simon, E. (1900). "Etudes arachnologiques. 30e Mémoire. XLVII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 69: 27–61. doi:10.1080/21686351.1900.12280033.