Biology:Ragatinus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Ragatinus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Ragatinus
Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016[1]
Species:
R. maddisoni
Binomial name
Ragatinus maddisoni
Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016[1]

Ragatinus is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. It was first described in 2016 by Angelika Dawidowicz and Wanda Wesołowska. (As of 2017), it contains only one species, Ragatinus maddisoni.[1]

Dawidowicz and Wesołowska placed the genus in the subtribe Thiratoscirtina,[2] which is placed in the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae (tribe Aelurillini) in Maddison's 2015 classification of the Salticidae.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Salticidae". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5554. 
  2. Dawidowicz, Ł.; Wesołowska, W. (2016), "Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Kenya collected by Åke Holm", Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 66 (3): 437–466, doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2016.66.3.010 
  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 

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