Pseudicius
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Pseudicius is a spider
genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
is a distinct genus or should be included in Pseudicius. Festucula
and Marchena
are other close relatives, these genera form a monophyletic group.
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Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
Relationships
The small genus Wesolowskana (formerly known as Luxuria) should possibly be included in this genus. There is some dispute whether AfraflacillaAfraflacilla
Afraflacilla is a genus of the spider family Salticidae . Most pecies are distributed in Eastern to Northern Africa and Australia, with one species Afraflacilla is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Most pecies are distributed in Eastern to Northern Africa (including the...
is a distinct genus or should be included in Pseudicius. Festucula
Festucula
Festucula is a genus of the spider family Salticidae .-Species:* Festucula festuculaeformis — Central, East, Southern Africa* Festucula lawrencei Lessert, 1933 — Angola, Tanzania...
and Marchena
Marchena
Marchena is a spider genus of the Salticidae family . Its only described species, M. minuta, is only found in the USA. It dwells on the barks of conifers along the west coast, especially California, Washington and Nevada...
are other close relatives, these genera form a monophyletic group.
Name
The genus name is combined of Greek pseudo "false" and the salticid genus name IciusIcius
Icius is a genus of jumping spiders described by Simon in 1876, belonging to the Order Araneae, Family Salticidae.-Distribution:Icius is an almost cosmopolitan genus, widespread in Europe , as well in Asia, Africa and in...
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Species
- Pseudicius admirandus Logunov, 2007 — IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
- Pseudicius adustus Wesolowska, 2006 — NamibiaNamibiaNamibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...
- Pseudicius afghanicus (Andreeva, Heciak & Prószyński, 1984) — AfghanistanAfghanistanAfghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
- Pseudicius africanus Peckham & PeckhamGeorge and Elizabeth PeckhamGeorge Williams Peckham and Elizabeth Maria Gifford Peckham were early American teachers, taxonomists, ethologists, arachnologists, and entomologists, specializing in animal behavior and in the study of jumping spiders and wasps.-Lives and careers:George Peckham was born in Albany,...
, 1903 — South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans... - Pseudicius alter Wesolowska, 2000 — ZimbabweZimbabweZimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
- Pseudicius amicus Prószyński, 2000 — Middle EastMiddle EastThe Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...
- Pseudicius andamanius (Tikader, 1977) — Andaman IslandsAndaman IslandsThe Andaman Islands are a group of Indian Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal between India to the west, and Burma , to the north and east...
- Pseudicius arabicus (Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994) — YemenYemenThe Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....
, Afghanistan - Pseudicius badius (Simon, 1868) — Southern EuropeEuropeEurope is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
- Pseudicius bipunctatus Peckham & Peckham, 1903 — South Africa
- Pseudicius braunsi Peckham & Peckham, 1903 — South Africa, Yemen, TurkmenistanTurkmenistanTurkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...
- Pseudicius cambridgei Prószyński & Zochowska, 1981 — Central AsiaAsiaAsia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture... - Pseudicius chinensis Logunov, 1995 — China
- Pseudicius cinctus (O. P-CambridgeOctavius Pickard-CambridgeThe Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS was an English clergyman and zoologist.Pickard-Cambridge was born in Bloxworth rectory, Dorset, the fifth son of Revd George Pickard, rector and squire of Bloxworth: the family changed their name to Pickard-Cambridge in 1848...
, 1885) — Central Asia to China - Pseudicius courtauldi Bristowe, 1935 — GreeceGreeceGreece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
to China - Pseudicius cultrifer Caporiacco, 1948 — Eastern Europe
- Pseudicius daitaricus Prószyński, 1992 — IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
- Pseudicius datuntatus Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005 — Afghanistan
- Pseudicius decemnotatus Simon, 1885 — SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
- Pseudicius delesserti Caporiacco, 1941 — EthiopiaEthiopiaEthiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
- Pseudicius deletus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1885) — China
- Pseudicius elegans Wesolowska & Cumming, 2008 — Zimbabwe
- Pseudicius elmenteitae Caporiacco, 1949 — KenyaKenyaKenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
- Pseudicius encarpatus (Walckenaer, 1802) — Europe to Central Asia
- Pseudicius espereyi Fage, 1921 — Greece
- Pseudicius eximius Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — TanzaniaTanzaniaThe United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
- Pseudicius flavipes (Caporiacco, 1935) — Turkmenistan, PakistanPakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
- Pseudicius frigidus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1885) — Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, China
- Pseudicius ghesquieri (Giltay, 1935) — Republic of Congo
- Pseudicius histrionicus Simon, 1902 — South Africa
- Pseudicius icioides (Simon, 1884) — SudanSudanSudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
- Pseudicius kaszabi (Zabka, 1985) — VietnamVietnamVietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
- Pseudicius koreanus Wesolowska, 1981 — China, KoreaKoreaKorea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... - Pseudicius kraussi (Marples, 1964) — Marshall IslandsMarshall IslandsThe Republic of the Marshall Islands , , is a Micronesian nation of atolls and islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line and just north of the Equator. As of July 2011 the population was 67,182...
, Cook IslandsCook IslandsThe Cook Islands is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand...
, SamoaSamoaSamoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in... - Pseudicius kulczynskii Nosek, 1905 — Greece, TurkeyTurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
, SyriaSyriaSyria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.... - Pseudicius ludhianaensis (Tikader, 1974) — India
- Pseudicius manillaensis Prószyński, 1992 — PhilippinesPhilippinesThe Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
- Pseudicius marshi (Peckham & Peckham, 1903) — South Africa
- Pseudicius maureri Prószyński, 1992 — Malaysia
- Pseudicius mikhailovi Prószyński, 2000 — IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
- Pseudicius miriae Prószyński, 2000 — Israel
- Pseudicius mirus Wesolowska & van Harten, 2002 — SocotraSocotraSocotra , also spelt Soqotra, is a small archipelago of four islands in the Indian Ocean. The largest island, also called Socotra, is about 95% of the landmass of the archipelago. It lies some east of the Horn of Africa and south of the Arabian Peninsula. The island is very isolated and through...
- Pseudicius modestus Simon, 1885 — India
- Pseudicius musculus Simon, 1901 — Algeria, South Africa
- Pseudicius nepalicus (Andreeva, Heciak & Prószyński, 1984) — NepalNepalNepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
, India - Pseudicius nuclearis Prószyński, 1992 — Marshall Islands, Caroline IslandsCaroline IslandsThe Caroline Islands are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia in the eastern part of the group, and Palau at the extreme western end...
- Pseudicius oblongus Peckham & Peckham, 1894 — BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
- Pseudicius okinawaensis Prószyński, 1992 — Okinawa
- Pseudicius originalis (Zabka, 1985) — Vietnam
- Pseudicius palaestinensis StrandEmbrik StrandEmbrik Strand was an arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species, including the greenbottle blue tarantula....
, 1915 — Israel - Pseudicius philippinensis Prószyński, 1992 — Philippines
- Pseudicius picaceus (Simon, 1868) — Mediterranean to AzerbaijanAzerbaijanAzerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
- Pseudicius pseudocourtauldi Logunov, 1999 — ArmeniaArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
- Pseudicius pseudoicioides (Caporiacco, 1935) — HimalayasHimalayasThe Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
- Pseudicius punctatus (Marples, 1957) — FijiFijiFiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
, Samoa, Caroline Islands - Pseudicius refulgens Wesolowska & Cumming, 2008 — Zimbabwe
- Pseudicius reiskindi Prószyński, 1992 — Borneo
- Pseudicius ridicularis Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 — Ethiopia
- Pseudicius rudakii Prószyński, 1992 — IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
- Pseudicius seychellensis Wanless, 1984 — SeychellesSeychellesSeychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....
- Pseudicius sheherezadae Prószyński, 1989 — Saudi ArabiaSaudi ArabiaThe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
- Pseudicius shirinae Prószyński, 1989 — Saudi Arabia
- Pseudicius sindbadi Prószyński, 1989 — Saudi Arabia
- Pseudicius siticulosus Peckham & Peckham, 1909 — USA
- Pseudicius solomonensis Prószyński, 1992 — Solomon IslandsSolomon IslandsSolomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...
- Pseudicius spasskyi (Andreeva, Heciak & Prószyński, 1984) — Central Asia
- Pseudicius spiniger (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) — Sudan to Syria
- Pseudicius szechuanensis Logunov, 1995 — China
- Pseudicius tamaricis Simon, 1885 — North Africa, Israel, Saudi Arabia
- Pseudicius tokarensis (Bohdanowicz & Prószyński, 1987) — Japan
- Pseudicius unicus (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) — MadagascarMadagascarThe Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
- Pseudicius vankeeri Metzner, 1999 — Greece
- Pseudicius vesporum Prószyński, 1992 — Philippines
- Pseudicius vulpes (Grube, 1861) — RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, China, Korea, Japan - Pseudicius wenshanensis He & Hu, 1999 — China
- Pseudicius wesolowskae Zhu & Song, 2001 — China
- Pseudicius yunnanensis (Schenkel, 1963) — China
- Pseudicius zabkai Song & Zhu, 2001 — China
- Pseudicius zebra Simon, 1902 — South Africa