Pachyballus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[2] While most are found in Africa and nearby regions, one species is endemic to New Caledonia. The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek παχύς ("pachys"), meaning "thick", and the salticid genus Ballus.
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| Pachyballus castaneus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Pachyballus Simon, 1900[1] |
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| P. transversus Simon, 1900
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Pachyballus rotundus was transferred to its own genus Planiemen in 2007 and Pachyballus oyo was transferred to Peplometus in 2020.[1]
Species
editAs of April 2021[update] it contains nine species and one subspecies, found only in Africa and on New Caledonia:[1]
- Pachyballus caelestis Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 – Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Pachyballus castaneus Simon, 1900 – South Africa
- Pachyballus flavipes Simon, 1910 – Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Tanzania, Kenya
- Pachyballus f. aurantius Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
- Pachyballus gambeyi (Simon, 1880) – New Caledonia
- Pachyballus miniscutulus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 – South Africa
- Pachyballus mombasensis Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 – Kenya
- Pachyballus ornatus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania
- Pachyballus transversus Simon, 1900 (type) – Guinea-Bissau, Congo, Zanzibar, South Africa
- Pachyballus variegatus Lessert, 1925 – Tanzania
References
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Pachyballus Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 22.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
- ^ Simon, E. (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 44: 381–407.
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