Padilla is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1894.[2] Most males have a characteristic long, forward projecting process on each chelicera that looks like a lance that is bent near the tip. The exception is P. javana, that doesn't have this feature.
| Padilla | |
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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: | Padilla Peckham & Peckham, 1894[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. armata Peckham & Peckham, 1894
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| Species | |
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19, see text | |
Proszynski drew the genitalia of both genders in 1987, and they resemble those of Marengo.[3]
Species edit
As of August 2019[update] it contains nineteen species, most endemic to Madagascar, and one species only occurring on Java:[1]
- Padilla ambigua Ledoux, 2007 – Réunion
- Padilla armata Peckham & Peckham, 1894 (type) – Madagascar
- Padilla astina Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla boritandroka Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla cornuta (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) – Madagascar
- Padilla foty Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla graminicola Ledoux, 2007 – Réunion
- Padilla griswoldi Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla javana Simon, 1900 – Indonesia (Java)
- Padilla lavatandroka Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla maingoka Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla manjelatra Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla mazavaloha Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla mihaingo Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla mitohy Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla ngeroka Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla ombimanga Andriamalala, 2007 – Madagascar
- Padilla rhizophorae Dierkens, 2014 – Comoros, Mayotte
- Padilla sartor Simon, 1900 – Madagascar
References edit
- ^ a b "Gen. Padilla Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
- ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1894). "Spiders of the Marptusa group". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 85–156.
- ^ Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. pp. 276f.
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