Rudakius

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: Rudakius
Species: R. afghanicus – R. cinctus – R. ludhianaensis – R. maureri – R. rudakii – R. spasskyi – R. wenshanensis –
Name

Rudakius Prószyński, 2016

Type species: Menemerus cinctus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885

Gender:masculine
References
Primary references

Prószyński, J. 2016: Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world. Ecologica Montenegrina 7: 4-32. Reference page.

Additional references

Andreeva, E.M., Hęciak, S. & Prószyński, J. 1984. Remarks on Icius and Pseudicius (Araneae, Salticidae) mainly from central Asia. Annales Zoologici 37: 349-375. PDF. Reference page.

Rudakius is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. It was first described in 2016 by Prószyński. As of 2017, it contains 7 species.[1]
Taxonomy

The genus Rudakius was one of a number of new genera erected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016, largely for species formerly placed in Pseudicius. Prószyński placed these genera in his informal group "pseudiciines", with Pseudicius as the representative genus.[2] In Wayne Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae, Pseudicius, broadly circumscribed, is placed in the tribe Chrysillini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[3]
Species

Rudakius comprises the following species:[1]

Rudakius afghanicus (Andreeva, Heciak & Prószyński, 1984) – Iran, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Rudakius cinctus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – Iran, Central Asia to China
Rudakius ludhianaensis (Tikader, 1974) – India
Rudakius maureri (Prószyński, 1992) – Malaysia
Rudakius rudakii (Prószyński, 1992) – Iran
Rudakius spasskyi (Andreeva, Heciak & Prószyński, 1984) – Iran, Central Asia
Rudakius wenshanensis (He & Hu, 1999) – China

References

"Salticidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-03-22.
Prószyński, J. (2016). "Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world". Ecologica Montenegrina. 7: 4–32. doi:10.37828/em.2016.7.1. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID 85680279.