Pochytoides is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska in 2020.[1]

Pochytoides
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pochytoides
Wesołowska, 2020
Type species
Pochyta poissoni
(Berland & Millot, 1941)
Species

11, see text

Taxonomy

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The group was first described by Berland and Millot in 1941 as a subgenus of the genus Pochyta.[2] It was elevated to a full genus by Wanda Wesołowska in 2018.[3] However, neither name was valid as no type species had been given. Wesołowska corrected this in 2020, designating Pochyta poissoni.[1]

Like Pochyta, Pochytoides is placed in the tribe Aelurillini in the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[3]

Species

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As of October 2022 the genus contained eleven species. All species are known from Guinea and/or Ivory Coast:[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Wesołowska, Wanda (2020). "Authorship of the generic name Pochytoides (Araneae, Salticidae)". Bionomina. 18 (1): 56. doi:10.11646/bionomina.18.1.3. S2CID 213486796.
  2. ^ Berland, Lucien; Millot, Jacques (1941). "Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides". Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 12: 297–423.
  3. ^ a b Wesołowska, Wanda (2018). "A revision of the genus Pochytoides Berland & Millot, 1941 (Araneae: Salticidae), with descriptions of six new species". European Journal of Taxonomy (418): 1–26. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.418.
  4. ^ "Gen. Pochytoides Wesołowska, 2020". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 17 October 2022.