Pseudicius

Pseudicius
male Pseudicius from Hong Kong
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Section:	Dionycha
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Heliophaninae
Genus:	Pseudicius Simon, 1885
Type species
Aranea encarpata Walckenaer, 1802
Species
see text
Diversity
79 species

Pseudicius is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

Relationships

The small genus Wesolowskana (formerly known as Luxuria) should possibly be included in this genus.^[1] There is some dispute whether Afraflacilla is a distinct genus or should be included in Pseudicius. Festucula and Marchena are other close relatives, these genera form a monophyletic group.^[2]

Name

The genus name is combined of Greek pseudo "false" and the salticid genus name Icius.

Species

P. vulpes from Japan

• Pseudicius admirandus Logunov, 2007 — Iran
• Pseudicius adustus Wesolowska, 2006 — Namibia
• Pseudicius afghanicus (Andreeva, Heciak & Prószyński, 1984) — Afghanistan
• Pseudicius africanus Peckham & Peckham, 1903 — South Africa
• Pseudicius alter Wesolowska, 2000 — Zimbabwe
• Pseudicius amicus Prószyński, 2000 — Middle East
• Pseudicius andamanius (Tikader, 1977) — Andaman Islands
• Pseudicius arabicus (Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994) — Yemen, Afghanistan
• Pseudicius badius (Simon, 1868) — Southern Europe
• Pseudicius bipunctatus Peckham & Peckham, 1903 — South Africa
• Pseudicius braunsi Peckham & Peckham, 1903 — South Africa, Yemen, Turkmenistan
• Pseudicius cambridgei Prószyński & Zochowska, 1981 — Central Asia, China
• Pseudicius chinensis Logunov, 1995 — China
• Pseudicius cinctus (O. P-Cambridge, 1885) — Central Asia to China
• Pseudicius courtauldi Bristowe, 1935 — Greece to China
• Pseudicius cultrifer Caporiacco, 1948 — Eastern Europe
• Pseudicius daitaricus Prószyński, 1992 — India
• Pseudicius datuntatus Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005 — Afghanistan
• Pseudicius decemnotatus Simon, 1885 — Singapore
• Pseudicius delesserti Caporiacco, 1941 — Ethiopia
• Pseudicius deletus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1885) — China
• Pseudicius elegans Wesolowska & Cumming, 2008 — Zimbabwe
• Pseudicius elmenteitae Caporiacco, 1949 — Kenya
• Pseudicius encarpatus (Walckenaer, 1802) — Europe to Central Asia
• Pseudicius espereyi Fage, 1921 — Greece
• Pseudicius eximius Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — Tanzania
• Pseudicius flavipes (Caporiacco, 1935) — Turkmenistan, Pakistan
• 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) — Sudan
• Pseudicius kaszabi (Zabka, 1985) — Vietnam
• Pseudicius koreanus Wesolowska, 1981 — China, Korea, Japan
• Pseudicius kraussi (Marples, 1964) — Marshall Islands, Cook Islands, Samoa
• Pseudicius kulczynskii Nosek, 1905 — Greece, Turkey, Syria
• Pseudicius ludhianaensis (Tikader, 1974) — India
• Pseudicius manillaensis Prószyński, 1992 — Philippines
• Pseudicius marshi (Peckham & Peckham, 1903) — South Africa
• Pseudicius maureri Prószyński, 1992 — Malaysia
• Pseudicius mikhailovi Prószyński, 2000 — Israel
• Pseudicius miriae Prószyński, 2000 — Israel
• Pseudicius mirus Wesolowska & van Harten, 2002 — Socotra
• Pseudicius modestus Simon, 1885 — India
• Pseudicius musculus Simon, 1901 — Algeria, South Africa
• Pseudicius nepalicus (Andreeva, Heciak & Prószyński, 1984) — Nepal, India
• Pseudicius nuclearis Prószyński, 1992 — Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands
• Pseudicius oblongus Peckham & Peckham, 1894 — Brazil
• Pseudicius okinawaensis Prószyński, 1992 — Okinawa
• Pseudicius originalis (Zabka, 1985) — Vietnam
• Pseudicius palaestinensis Strand, 1915 — Israel
• Pseudicius philippinensis Prószyński, 1992 — Philippines
• Pseudicius picaceus (Simon, 1868) — Mediterranean to Azerbaijan
• Pseudicius pseudocourtauldi Logunov, 1999 — Armenia
• Pseudicius pseudoicioides (Caporiacco, 1935) — Himalayas
• Pseudicius punctatus (Marples, 1957) — Fiji, Samoa, Caroline Islands
• Pseudicius refulgens Wesolowska & Cumming, 2008 — Zimbabwe
• Pseudicius reiskindi Prószyński, 1992 — Borneo
• Pseudicius ridicularis Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 — Ethiopia
• Pseudicius rudakii Prószyński, 1992 — Iran
• Pseudicius seychellensis Wanless, 1984 — Seychelles
• Pseudicius sheherezadae Prószyński, 1989 — Saudi Arabia
• Pseudicius shirinae Prószyński, 1989 — Saudi Arabia
• Pseudicius sindbadi Prószyński, 1989 — Saudi Arabia
• Pseudicius siticulosus Peckham & Peckham, 1909 — United States
• Pseudicius solomonensis Prószyński, 1992 — Solomon Islands
• 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) — Madagascar
• Pseudicius vankeeri Metzner, 1999 — Greece
• Pseudicius vesporum Prószyński, 1992 — Philippines
• Pseudicius vulpes (Grube, 1861) — Russia, 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

Notes

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.

External links

• Photograph of P. encarpatus
• Photograph of Pseudicius sp.