Icius

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: Icius
Species: I. abnormis – I. alboterminus – I. bamboo – I. bilobus – I. brunellii – I. cervinus – I. congener – I. courtauldi – I. crassipes – I. daisetsuzanus – I. dendryphantoides – I. desertorum – I. flavipes – I. frigidus – I. glaucochirus – I. gyirongensis – I. hamatus – I. hongkong – I. ildefonsus – I. inhonestus – I. insolidus – I. insolitus – I. kulczynskii – I. kumariae – I. minimus – I. nebulosus – I. nepalicus – I. nigricaudus – I. ocellatus – I. olokomei – I. pallidulus – I. peculiaris – I. picaceus – I. pseudicioides – I. pseudocellatus – I. pulchellus – I. rugosus – I. separatus – I. simoni – I. spasskyi – I. spiniger – I. steelae – I. subinermis – I. testaceolineatus – I. tukarami – I. vikrambatrai – I. yadongensis
Name

Icius Simon, 1876

Type species: Marpissa hamata Carl Ludwig Koch, 1846
References

Caleb, J.T.D. 2017. Jumping spiders of the genus Icius Simon, 1876 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India, with a description of a new species. Arthropoda Selecta 26(4): 323-327. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Cao, Q., Li, S-Q. & Żabka, M. 2016. The jumping spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 630: 43–104. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.630.8466. Reference page.
Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]
Suguro, T. & Nagano, H. 2015. A new species of the genus Icius (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Acta Arachnologica 64(2): 91–95. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Vernacular names
English: Icius

Icius is a genus of jumping spiders described by Eugène Simon in 1876, belonging to the Order Araneae, Family Salticidae.[1]
Distribution

Icius is an almost cosmopolitan genus, widespread in Europe (mainly in Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Poland, Romania, Portugal, southern Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Spain and in The Netherlands), as well in Asia, Africa and in Central and South America (one species, Icius pallidulus is endemic of Micronesia).[2]
Species

As of July 2023, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:[1]

Icius abnormis Denis, 1958 – Afghanistan
Icius alboterminus (Caleb, 2014) – India, Nepal
Icius bamboo Cao & Li, 2016 – China
Icius bandama Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
Icius bilobus Yang & Tang, 1996 – China
Icius brunellii Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
Icius cervinus Simon, 1878 – Russia
Icius congener Simon, 1871 – Western Mediterranean
Icius crassipes Simon, 1868 – Spain, Algeria, Tunisia
Icius dendryphantoides Strand, 1909 – South Africa
Icius desertorum Simon, 1901 – South Africa
Icius fagei (Lessert, 1925) – Tanzania
Icius glaucochirus (Thorell, 1890) – Sumatra
Icius grassei (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Malawi, Nigeria, DR Congo, Kenya
Icius hamatus (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Palearctic
Icius ildefonsus Chamberlin, 1924 – Mexico
Icius inhonestus Keyserling, 1878 – Uruguay
Icius insolidus (Wesołowska, 1999) – Nigeria, southern Africa
Icius insolitus Alicata & Cantarella, 1994 – Algeria
Icius kumariae Caleb, 2017 – India
Icius lamellatus Wunderlich, 2011 – Portugal, Italy
Icius mbitaensis Wesołowska, 2011 – Kenya
Icius minimus Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
Icius niger Peelle & Saito, 1933 – Kuril Islands
Icius nigricaudus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009 – South Africa
Icius ocellatus Pavesi, 1883 – East Africa
Icius olokomei Wesołowska & A. Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria
Icius pallidulus Nakatsudi, 1943 – Micronesia
Icius peculiaris Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
Icius pulchellus Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011 – South Africa
Icius separatus Banks, 1903 – Hispaniola
Icius simoni Alicata & Cantarella, 1994 – Algeria
Icius steeleae Logunov, 2004 – Sudan, Kenya, Uganda
Icius subinermis Simon, 1937 – Mediterranean, Germany, Hungary, Romania. Introduced to USA
Icius testaceolineatus (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
Icius tukarami Prajapati, Kumbhar, Caleb, Sanap & Kamboj, 2021 – India
Icius vikrambatrai Prajapati, Malamel, Sudhikumar & Sebastian, 2018 – India
Icius yadongensis Hu, 2001 – China

References

World Spider Catalog (2023). "Gen. Icius Simon, 1876". World Spider Catalog. 24.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 9 July 2023.

Proszynski, Jerzy (2005). "Gen. Icius Simon, 1876". Catalogue of Salticidae (Araneae): Synthesis of Quotations in the World Literature since 1758. Retrieved 13 July 2017.

Simon, 1876 - Les arachnides de France, Paris, vol.3, p. 1-364