Katya is a genus of Southeast Asian jumping spiders first described by Jerzy Prószyński & Christa Deeleman-Reinhold in 2010.[2] As of April 2019 it contains only three species.[1] This genus is named after the Uzbek arachnologist Ekaterina Andreeva.[3]

Katya
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Katya
Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010[1]
Type species
K. florescens Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010
Species
  • K. florescens Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 — Indonesia (Flores)
  • K. ijensis Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 — Indonesia (Java)
  • K. inornata Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 — Indonesia (Java)

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Katya Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  2. ^ Prószyński, J.; Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2010). "Description of some Salticidae (Araneae) from the Malay Archipelago. I. Salticidae of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with comments on related species". Arthropoda Selecta. 19: 153–188. doi:10.15298/arthsel.19.3.05.
  3. ^ Yuri M. Marusik; Danniella Sherwood (27 June 2022). "Matronymic genera in spiders (Araneae) named for arachnologists". Arachnology. 19 (sp1). doi:10.13156/ARAC.2022.19.SP1.150. ISSN 2050-9928. Wikidata Q113667188.
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"Katya" at the Encyclopedia of Life