Biology:Nicylla

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Nicylla
Thiania bhamoensis.jpg
Nicylla sundevalli
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Nicylla
Thorell, 1890[1]
Species:
N. sundevalli
Binomial name
Nicylla sundevalli
Thorell, 1890

Nicylla is a monotypic genus of Sumatran jumping spiders containing the single species, Nicylla sundevalli. It was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890,[2] and is only found on Sumatra.[1] Briefly considered a synonym of Thiania,[3] it was elevated back to genus status in 2017.[4]

Thiania, circumscribed to include Nicylla, is placed in the tribe Euophryini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Nicylla Thorell, 1890. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2816. Retrieved 2019-08-06. 
  2. Thorell, T. (1890). "Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 30: 132–172. 
  3. Zhang, J. X.; Maddison, W. P. (2015). "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny". Zootaxa 3938 (1): 32. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1. PMID 25947489. 
  4. Prószyński, J. (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 77. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1. https://www.biotaxa.org/em/article/view/33084. 
  5. 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 

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