Emertonius

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Emertonius is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae.

Taxonomy

Emertonius was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892. It was variously treated as a synonym of Myrmarachne or a separate genus from 1978 onwards. Jerzy Prószyński revalidated the genus in 2018, and it is accepted by the World Spider Catalog {{As of|2020|08|lc=yes}}.

When included in Myrmarachne, it was placed in subfamily Salticinae (clade Salticoida, tribe Myrmarachnini) in Maddison's 2016 classification of the family Salticidae. Prószyński placed the separate genus in his informal group "myrmarachnines".

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{{As of|2020|08}}, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:

Emertonius exasperans (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) (type species) – Indonesia (Java, Bali)
Emertonius koomeni Prószyński, 2018 – Malaysia (Borneo)
Emertonius malayanus (Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003) – Malaysia (peninsula, Borneo), Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo)
Emertonius palawensis Prószyński, 2018 – Philippines
Emertonius shelfordi (Peckham & Peckham, 1907) – Malaysia (Borneo)

References

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{{Citation |last1=Maddison |first1=Wayne P. |title=A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) |journal=Journal of Arachnology |date=2015 |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=231–292 |doi=10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292|s2cid=85680279 }}

{{Citation |last1=Prószyński |first1=J. |date=2018 |title=Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae) |journal=Ecologica Montenegrina |volume=16 |pages=130–179 |doi=10.37828/em.2018.16.12 |doi-access=free }}

{{citation |title=Gen. Emertonius Peckham & Peckham, 1892 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/4575 |access-date=2020-08-28 }}

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Category:Salticidae

Category:Salticidae genera