Vailimia

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Vailimia

| image = Vailimia sp. - frontal.jpg

| image_caption = Vailimia cf. ajmerensis from Rajasthan, India

| authority = Kammerer, 2006

| type_species = Vailima masinei

| type_species_authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1907

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 4, see text

}}

Vailimia is a genus of Asian jumping spiders. The type species was described in 1907 from a single male about {{convert|6|mm}} long. It was originally thought to be close to Harmochirus, but the male pedipalp, chelicera, and cephalothorax drawn by Proszynski in 1984, and information gained from later collected specimens indicates otherwise.{{cite book| last1=Murphy| first1=Frances| last2=Murphy| first2=John| year=2000| title=An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia| publisher=Malaysian Nature Society| place=Kuala Lumpur}} Subsequently, five more species have been identified. It may be a synonym for Pancorius.{{cite journal| last=Maddison| first=Wayne P.| title=A Phylogenetic Classification of Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)|journal=The Journal of Arachnology| volume=43| pages=231–292| issue=3| year=2015| jstor=24717307| doi=10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292| s2cid=85680279}}

Name

The genus was originally named Vailima after the name of the last residence of Robert Louis Stevenson and the village where it is situated. The genus name Vailima was erected by Peckham & Peckham in 1907. However, the name was misspelled Vailimia by Prószyński in 2003. The alternate name Vailimia in 2006 was suggested by C. F. Kammerer{{cite journal| last=Kammerer| first=C. F.| year=2006| title=Notes on some preoccupied names in Arthropoda| journal=Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica| pages=269–271| volume=31}} as the name was found to be preoccupied by the fish genus Vailima.

Species

Most species are found in Borneo, though Vailimia longitibia was first identified in China,{{Cite journal|last1=Guo|first1=J.Y.|last2=Zhang|first2=F.|last3=Zhu|first3=M.S.|title=One newly recorded genus and one new species of the family Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China|url=http://caod.oriprobe.com/articles/27824884/One_New_Recorded_Genus_and_One_New_Species_of_the_Family_Salticidae_Ar.htm|journal=Acta Arachnologica Sinica|year=2011|volume=20|issue=1 |pages=1–3}} and Vailimia ajmerensis and Vailimia jharbari have been described from India. {{as of|2021|06}} it contains six species, all found in Asia:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Vailimia Kammerer, 2006| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-29| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3041| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Bern| first1=Natural History Museum}}{{Cite journal|last1=Basumatary|first1=Paris|last2=Caleb|first2=John T.D.|last3=Sangeeta|first3=D.A.S.|last4=Jangid|first4=Ashish K.|last5=Kalita|first5=Jatin|last6=Brahma|first6=Dulur|date=2020|title=First record of the genus Vailimia Kammerer, 2006 from India, with the description of two new species (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina)|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33055862/|journal=Zootaxa|volume=2020 Jun 10|issue=1|pages=4790(1):zootaxa.4790.1.11|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4790.1.11|pmid=33055862|s2cid=222839494}}

Vailimia ajmerensis Caleb & Jangid, 2020 – India
Vailimia bakoensis Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Borneo
Vailimia jharbari Basumatary, Caleb & Das, 2020 – India

File:Vailimia sp. - ventral view.jpg

Vailimia jianyuae Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Borneo
Vailimia longitibia Guo, Zhang & Zhu, 2011 – China
Vailimia masinei (Peckham & Peckham, 1907) (type) – Borneo

Vailimia

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