Padilla (spider)

Padilla is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1894.[2] Most males have a characteristic long, forward projecting process on each chelicera that looks like a lance that is bent near the tip. The exception is P. javana, that doesn't have this feature.

Padilla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Padilla
Peckham & Peckham, 1894[1]
Type species
P. armata
Peckham & Peckham, 1894
Species

19, see text

Proszynski drew the genitalia of both genders in 1987, and they resemble those of Marengo.[3]

Species

As of August 2019 it contains nineteen species, most endemic to Madagascar, and one species only occurring on Java:[1]

  • Padilla ambigua Ledoux, 2007 – Réunion
  • Padilla armata Peckham & Peckham, 1894 (type) – 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 – Indonesia (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, Mayotte
  • Padilla sartor Simon, 1900 – Madagascar

References
  1. "Gen. Padilla Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1894). "Spiders of the Marptusa group". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 85–156.
  3. Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. pp. 276f.


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