Padilla (spider)

Padilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Ballinae
Genus: Padilla
Type species
Padilla armata
Peckham & Peckham, 1894
Species

see text

Diversity
19 species

Padilla is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Almost all described species are endemic to Madagascar, with one species only occurring on Java.

Most males in this genus have a characteristic very long, forward projecting process on each chelicera, which looks like a lance which has been bent near the tip. It is missing in P. javana. The genitalia of both sexes of a Padilla species are drawn in Proszynski (1987), and resemble those of Marengo.[1]

Species

As of July 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:[2]

  • Padilla ambigua Ledoux, 2007 – Réunion
  • Padilla armata Peckham & Peckham, 1894 – Madagascar
  • Padilla astina Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
  • Padilla boritandroka Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
  • Padilla cornuta (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) – Madagascar
  • Padilla foty Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
  • Padilla graminicola Ledoux, 2007 – Réunion
  • Padilla griswoldi Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
  • Padilla javana Simon, 1900 – Java
  • Padilla lavatandroka Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
  • Padilla maingoka Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
  • Padilla manjelatra Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
  • Padilla mazavaloha Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
  • Padilla mihaingo Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
  • Padilla mitohy Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
  • Padilla ngeroka Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
  • Padilla ombimanga Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
  • Padilla rhizophorae Dierkens, 2014 – Comoros
  • Padilla sartor Simon, 1900 – Madagascar

References

  1. ↑ Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. pp. 276f.
  2. ↑ World Spider Catalog (2017). "Gen. Padilla Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
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