Chirothecia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Salticoidea

Familia: Salticidae
Subfamilia: Dendryphantinae
Genus: Chirothecia
Species: C. amazonica – C. botucatuensis – C. clavimana – C. crassipes – C. daguerrei – C. euchira – C. minima – C. rosea – C. semiornata – C. soaresi – C. uncata – C. wrzesniowskii
Name

Chirothecia Taczanowski, 1878

Type species: Chirothecia clavimana (Taczanowski, 1871)
Synonyms

Partona Simon, 1901

References

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
English: Chirothecia

Chirothecia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1878.[3] Chirothecia is very similar to Bellota, but can be distinguished by the following characteristics: a much wider and taller cephalothorax (the width being 70–80% of the length and the height being 38–47% of the length); a much longer eye area (occupying 60–70% of the cephalothorax length); the posterior median eyes are always closer to the anterior lateral eyes than the posterior lateral eyes.[4]
Species

As of June 2019 it contains thirteen species, found only in South America and Panama:[1]

Chirothecia amazonica Simon, 1901 – Brazil
Chirothecia botucatuensis Bauab, 1980 – Brazil
Chirothecia clavimana (Taczanowski, 1871) (type) – Brazil, Guyana
Chirothecia crassipes Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru
Chirothecia daguerrei Galiano, 1972 – Argentina
Chirothecia euchira (Simon, 1901) – Brazil, Argentina
Chirothecia minima Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Argentina
Chirothecia rosea (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
Chirothecia semiornata Simon, 1901 – Brazil
Chirothecia soaresi Bauab, 1980 – Brazil
Chirothecia soesilae Makhan, 2006 – Suriname
Chirothecia uncata Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
Chirothecia wrzesniowskii Taczanowski, 1878 – Ecuador

References

Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Chirothecia Taczanowski, 1878". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
Galiano, M. E. (1972). "Revisión del género Chirothecia Taczanowski, 1878 (Araneae, Salticidae)". Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia. 4: 4.
Taczanowski, L. (1878). "Les Aranéides du Pérou. Famille des Attides". Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 53: 278–374.
Galiano, María Elena (1972). "Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. XIII. Revisión del género Bellota Peckham, 1892". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (in Spanish). Buenos Aires. 31 (83): 463–484.