Thiratoscirtus

Thiratoscirtus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Thiratoscirtus
Simon, 1886[1]
Type species
T. patagonicus
Simon, 1886
Species

26, see text

Thiratoscirtus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first circumscribed by Eugène Louis Simon in 1886.[2] Thiratoscirtus is very diverse and contains many monophyletic groups.[3] Phylogenetic analysis undertaken by Melissa Bonder and Wayne Maddison has shown that it is related to the genera Alfenus, Bacelarella, Longarenus and Malloneta.[4] The genus is also closely related to Nimbarus.[5] It is likely to have diverged between 16.3 and 18.7 million years ago.[6] In 2012, Bodner and Wayne Maddison proposed a subfamily Thiratoscirtinae for the genus and its related genera.[7] This overlapped with a group of genera named Thiratoscirtines after the genus, created by Jerzy Prószyński in 2017.[8] Thiratoscirtus is a member of the subtribe Thiratoscirtina in the tribe Aelurillini.[9] In 2015, Maddison listed the tribe to the subclade Simonida in the clade Saltafresia in the clade Salticoida.[10]

Species

As of September 2025 it contains thirty-nine species, found only in Africa, Argentina, and Brazil:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Thiratoscirtus Simon, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 26.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2025. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
  2. ^ Simon 1886, p. 559.
  3. ^ Pett, Iyomi & Mbende 2024, p. 155.
  4. ^ Bodner & Maddison 2012, p. 219.
  5. ^ Szűts & Maddison 2021, p. 124.
  6. ^ Bodner & Maddison 2012, p. 224.
  7. ^ Prószyński 2017, p. 109.
  8. ^ Prószyński 2017, p. 105.
  9. ^ Maddison 2015, p. 280.
  10. ^ Maddison 2015, p. 278.

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