Marchena

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: Marchena
Species: M. minuta
Name

Marchena Peckham & Peckham, 1888

Type species: Cytaea minuta Peckham & Peckham, 1888
References
Primary references

Peckham, G.W. & Packham, E.M.G. 1888. Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 7: 1-104. PDF. Reference page.

Additional references

Maddison, W.P. 1987. Marchena and other jumping spiders with an apparent leg-carapace stridulatory mechanism (Araneae: Salticidae: Heliophaninae and Thiodinae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 7: 101-106. PDF. Reference page.

Marchena is a genus of jumping spiders only found in the United States. Its only described species, M. minuta,[1] dwells on the barks of conifers along the west coast, especially California, Washington and Nevada.[2]

It forms a monophyletic group with the genera Afraflacilla, Pseudicius and Festucula.[3]
Description

This species can easily be distinguished from others in its range by the tubercles on the first femur of its first legs.[2] M. minuta has a body length of about 4 mm.
Name

The genus name is probably derived from the Spanish city of Marchena, Seville.[citation needed] As witnessed by other generic names, the describers had a habit of naming taxa after places unrelated to the species' distribution. The species name is Latin for "small, minute".
Notes

"Salticidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
Maddison, Wayne. 1995. Marchena. Marchena minuta. Version 1 January 1995 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Marchena_minuta/2986/1995.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

Zabka & Grey 2002

References

Zabka, Marek & Gray, Michael R. (2002): Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, XVI. New Species of Grayenulla and Afraflacilla. Records of the Australian Museum 54: 269-274. PDF
Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.