Emertonius is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae.[1]

Emertonius
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Emertonius
Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1]
Species

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Taxonomy

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Emertonius was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[1] It was variously treated as a synonym of Myrmarachne or a separate genus from 1978 onwards. Jerzy Prószyński revalidated the genus in 2018,[2] and it is accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of August 2020.[1]

When included in Myrmarachne, it was placed in subfamily Salticinae (clade Salticoida, tribe Myrmarachnini) in Maddison's 2016 classification of the family Salticidae.[3] Prószyński placed the separate genus in his informal group "myrmarachnines".[2]

Species

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As of August 2020, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Gen. Emertonius Peckham & Peckham, 1892", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-08-28
  2. ^ a b Prószyński, J. (2018), "Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae)", Ecologica Montenegrina, 16: 130–179, doi:10.37828/em.2018.16.12
  3. ^ Maddison, Wayne P. (2015), "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)", Journal of Arachnology, 43 (3): 231–292, doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292, S2CID 85680279