Epocilla

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: Heliophaninae
Genus: Epocilla
Species: E. aura – E. aurantiaca – E. blairei – E. calcarata – E. chimakothiensis – E. femoralis – E. innotata – E. mauriciana – E. pakhtunkhwa – E. picturata – E. praetextata – E. sirohi – E. xylina
Name

Epocilla Thorell, 1887

Type species: Epocilla praetextata Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell, 1887
Synonyms

Dischiropus Karsch, 1892 (synonymized by Simon, 1901: 555)
Type species: Dischiropus alticinctus Karsch, 1892 (= Epocilla aurantiaca Simon, 1885)
Goajara Peckham & Peckham, 1907 (synonymized by Żabka, 1985: 216)
Type species: Goajara crassipes G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1907 (= Epocilla calcarata Karsch, 1880)

References
Primary references

Thorell, T.T.T. 1887: Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui ragni birmani. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 25: 5-417. Reference page.

Additional references

Ali, P.A., Maddison, W.P., Zahid, M. & Butt, A. 2018. New chrysilline and aelurilline jumping spiders from Pakistan (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 783: 1–15. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.783.21985 Reference page.
Caleb, J.T.D., Chatterjee, S., Tyagi, K., Kundu, S. & Kumar, V. 2017b. Two new jumping spiders of the genera Epocilla Thorell, 1887 and Mogrus Simon, 1882 from India (Araneae: Salticidae) Arthropoda Selecta 26(4): 329–334. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Caleb, J.T.D., Sanap, R.V., Prajapati, D.A. & Bambhaniya, P. 2021.Taxonomic notes on two jumping spider species of the genus Epocilla Thorell, 1887 (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from India and Pakistan. Arthropoda Selecta 30(2): 221-229. Reference page.

Links

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

Vernacular names
English: Epocilla

Epocilla is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1887.[3] The name comes from Ἐπόκιλλος (Epocillus), a soldier of Alexander the Great.[citation needed]
Species

As of June 2019 it contains twelve species, found in Asia, Mauritius, on the Seychelles, and Hawaii:[1]

Epocilla aurantiaca (Simon, 1885) – India to Malaysia
Epocilla blairei Zabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam
Epocilla calcarata (Karsch, 1880) – China to Indonesia (Sulawesi). Introduced to Seychelles, USA (Hawaii)
Epocilla chimakothiensis Jastrzebski, 2007 – Bhutan
Epocilla femoralis Simon, 1901 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
Epocilla innotata Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
Epocilla mauriciana Simon, 1901 – Mauritius
Epocilla pakhtunkhwa Ali & Maddison, 2018 – Pakistan
Epocilla picturata Simon, 1901 – China
Epocilla praetextata Thorell, 1887 (type) – India, Bhutan, Myanmar to Indonesia (Java)
Epocilla sirohi Caleb, Chatterjee, Tyagi, Kundu & Kumar, 2017 – India
Epocilla xylina Simon, 1906 – India

References

"Gen. Epocilla Thorell, 1887". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
Żabka, M. (1985). "Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa. 39: 216.

Thorell, T. (1887). "Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui ragni birmani". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 25: 5–417.

External links

Genus description