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. 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.

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 Wesołowska, 2006 — Namibia
• Pseudicius afghanicus (Andreeva, Heciak & Prószyński, 1984) — Afghanistan
• Pseudicius africanus Peckham & Peckham, 1903 — South Africa
• Pseudicius alter Wesołowska, 2000 — Zimbabwe
• Pseudicius amicus Prószyński, 2000 — Middle East
• Pseudicius andamanius (Tikader, 1977) — Andaman Islands
• Pseudicius arabicus (Wesołowska & 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 Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008) — Zimbabwe
• Pseudicius elmenteitae Caporiacco, 1949 — Kenya
• Pseudicius encarpatus (Walckenaer, 1802) — Europe to Central Asia
• Pseudicius espereyi Fage, 1921 — Greece
• Pseudicius eximius Wesołowska & 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 Wesołowska, 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 Wesołowska & 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 Wesołowskaa & Cumming, 2008 — Zimbabwe
• Pseudicius reiskindi Prószyński, 1992 — Borneo
• Pseudicius ridicularis Wesołowska & 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

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.