Toxeus is a genus of jumping spiders first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846.[1] The genus was synonymized with Myrmarachne by Eugène Simon in 1901, and remained a synonym until revived by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016,[2] when he split up Myrmarachne.[3]

Toxeus
T. magnus, male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Toxeus
Koch, 1846
Species

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Prószyński placed Toxeus in his informal group "myrmarachnines".[3] When synonymized with Myrmarachne, it was placed in the tribe Myrmarachnini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae in Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae.[4]

Species

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As of February 2022, it includes the following species:[2]

References

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  1. ^ Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. 1-234, Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88
  2. ^ a b "Gen. Toxeus C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  3. ^ a b Prószyński, J. (2016). "Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world". Ecologica Montenegrina. 7: 4–32. doi:10.37828/em.2016.7.1. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
  4. ^ 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. S2CID 85680279.