Icius

Icius is a genus of jumping spiders described by Eugène Simon in 1876, belonging to the Order Araneae, Family Salticidae.[1]

Icius
male Icius subinermis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Arachnida
Order:
Araneae
Family:
Salticidae
Genus:
Icius

Simon, 1876
Type species
Marpissa hamata
Diversity
29 species

Distribution

Icius is an almost cosmopolitan genus, widespread in Europe (mainly in Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Poland, Romania, Portugal, southern Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Spain and in The Netherlands), as well in Asia, Africa and in Central and South America (one species, Icius pallidulus is endemic of Micronesia).[2]

Species

As of July 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:[1]

  • Icius abnormis Denis, 1958 – Afghanistan
  • Icius bilobus Yang & Tang, 1996 – China
  • Icius brunellii Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
  • Icius cervinus Simon, 1878 – Russia
  • Icius congener Simon, 1871 – Western Mediterranean
  • Icius crassipes Simon, 1868 – Spain, Algeria, Tunisia
  • Icius daisetsuzanus Saito, 1934 – Japan
  • Icius dendryphantoides Strand, 1909 – South Africa
  • Icius desertorum Simon, 1901 – South Africa
  • Icius glaucochirus (Thorell, 1890) – Sumatra
  • Icius gyirongensis Hu, 2001 – China
  • Icius hamatus (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Palearctic
  • Icius hongkong Song et al., 1997 – Hong Kong
  • Icius ildefonsus Chamberlin, 1924 – Mexico
  • Icius inhonestus Keyserling, 1878 – Uruguay
  • Icius insolitus Alicata & Cantarella, 1994 – Spain
  • Icius lamellatus Wunderlich, 2011 – Portugal, Italy
  • Icius mbitaensis Wesołowska, 2011 – Kenya
  • Icius minimus Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
  • Icius nigricaudus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009 – South Africa
  • Icius nebulosus (Simon, 1868) – Western Mediterranean
  • Icius ocellatus Pavesi, 1883 – East Africa
  • Icius olokomei Wesołowska & A. Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria
  • Icius pallidulus Nakatsudi, 1943 – Micronesia
  • Icius peculiaris Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
  • Icius pseudocellatus Strand, 1907 – South Africa
  • Icius pulchellus Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011 – South Africa
  • Icius rugosus Suguro & Nagano, 2015 – Japan
  • Icius separatus Banks, 1903 – Hispaniola
  • Icius simoni Alicata & Cantarella, 1994 – Algeria
  • Icius steelae Logunov, 2004 – Sudan
  • Icius subinermis Simon, 1937 – Mediterranean
  • Icius testaceolineatus (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
  • Icius yadongensis Hu, 2001 – China

References
  1. World Spider Catalog (2017). "Gen. Icius Simon, 1876". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  2. Proszynski, Jerzy (2005). "Gen. Icius Simon, 1876". Catalogue of Salticidae (Araneae): Synthesis of Quotations in the World Literature since 1758. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  • Simon, 1876 - Les arachnides de France, Paris, vol.3, p. 1-364


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