Marpissa

Genus of spiders

Marpissa
Marpissa muscosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Marpissa
C. L. Koch, 1846[1]
Type species
M. muscosa
(Clerck, 1757)
Species

41, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Hyctia Simon, 1876[2]
  • Icidella Bösenberg & Strand, 1906[3]
  • Roeweriella Kratochvíl, 1932[4]

Marpissa is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846.[5] The name is derived from Marpissa, an ancient Greek village.

Species

As of July 2024[update] it contains forty-one species, found in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, on the Polynesian Islands, and the Greater Antilles:[1]

  • Marpissa agricola (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894)Brazil
  • Marpissa armifera Urquhart, 1892New Zealand
  • Marpissa balcanica (Kratochvíl, 1932)Croatia
  • Marpissa bina (Hentz, 1846)United States
  • Marpissa bryantae (Jones, 1945) – United States
  • Marpissa carinata Butt & Beg, 2000Pakistan
  • Marpissa dayapurensis Majumder, 2004India
  • Marpissa dentoides Barnes, 1958 – United States
  • Marpissa formosa (Banks, 1892) – United States
  • Marpissa fornicis (Dyal, 1935) – Pakistan
  • Marpissa gangasagarensis Majumder, 2005 – India
  • Marpissa grata (Gertsch, 1936) – United States
  • Marpissa hieroglyphica Taczanowski, 1878Peru
  • Marpissa insignis Butt & Beg, 2000 – Pakistan
  • Marpissa kalighatensis B. Biswas & K. Biswas, 1992 – India
  • Marpissa lineata (C. L. Koch, 1846) – United States
  • Marpissa linzhiensis Hu, 2001China
  • Marpissa longiuscula (Simon, 1871)Ukraine
  • Marpissa mashibarai Baba, 2013Korea, Japan
  • Marpissa melanura F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901Guatemala
  • Marpissa milleri (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894)Russia (Far East), China, Korea, Japan
  • Marpissa mirabilis Butt & Beg, 2000 – Pakistan
  • Marpissa muscosa (Clerck, 1757) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Middle Siberia)
  • Marpissa mystacina Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru
  • Marpissa nivoyi (Lucas, 1846) – Europe, Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia
  • Marpissa nutanae B. Biswas & K. Biswas, 1984 – India
  • Marpissa obtusa Barnes, 1958 – United States
  • Marpissa pikei (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1888) – United States, Mexico, Cuba
  • Marpissa pomatia (Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Central Asia, Afghanistan, China, Korea, Japan
  • Marpissa prathamae B. Biswas & K. Biswas, 1984 – India
  • Marpissa proszynskii Biswas & Begum, 1999Bangladesh
  • Marpissa pulla (Karsch, 1879) – Russia (Far East), China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan
  • Marpissa radiata (Grube, 1859) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to South Siberia), Kazakhstan
  • Marpissa raimondi Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru
  • Marpissa robusta (Banks, 1906) – United States
  • Marpissa rubriceps Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Brazil
  • Marpissa soricina (Thorell, 1899)Cameroon
  • Marpissa sulcosa Barnes, 1958 – United States
  • Marpissa tenebrosa Butt & Beg, 2000 – Pakistan
  • Marpissa yawatai Baba, 2013 – Japan
  • Marpissa zaitzevi Mcheidze, 1997 – Georgia

References

  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Marpissa C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2024. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
  2. ^ Barnes, R. D. (1958). "North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Salticidae)". American Museum Novitates (1867): 3.
  3. ^ Yaginuma, T. (1955). "Revision of scientific names of Japanese spiders". Atypus. 8: 14.
  4. ^ Logunov, D. V. (2009). "On Roeweriella balcanica, a mysterious species of Marpissa from the Balkan Peninsula (Araneae, Salticidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 37: 9. doi:10.5431/aramit3702.
  5. ^ Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. , Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88. pp. 1–234.
  • Photograph of M. muscosa
  • Photographs of M. muscosa and M. pomatia
  • Photograph of M. nivoyi
  • Picture of M. bina
  • Awesome spiders: Photographs of the elongated M. pikei
Taxon identifiers
Marpissa