Marchena

Short description: Genus of spiders

Marchena

Male Marchena minuta in Humboldt County, California
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Salticidae
Subfamily:  | Salticinae
Genus:  | Marchena
Species:  |

M. minuta

Binomial name
Marchena minuta

(Peckham & Peckham, 1888)[1]

Marchena is a genus of jumping spiders only found in the United States. Its only described species, M. minuta,[1] dwells on the barks of conifers along the west coast, especially California , Washington (state) and Nevada.[2]

It forms a monophyletic group with the genera Afraflacilla, Pseudicius and Festucula.[3]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Name
* 3 Notes
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Description

This species can easily be distinguished from others in its range by the tubercles on the first femur of its first legs.[2] M. minuta has a body length of about 4 mm.

## Name

The genus name is probably derived from the Spanish city of Marchena, Seville.[citation needed] As witnessed by other generic names, the describers had a habit of naming taxa after places unrelated to the species' distribution. The species name is Latin for "small, minute".

## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Salticidae". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2768. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Maddison, Wayne. 1995. Marchena. Marchena minuta. Version 1 January 1995 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Marchena_minuta/2986/1995.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
3. ↑ Zabka & Grey 2002

## 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

* Awesome Spiders: Photographs of female and male
* Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings and distribution map of M. minuta

Wikidata ☰ Q962353 entry

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