Marchena

Genus of spiders

For the town, see Marchena, Spain. For people named Marchena, see Marchena (surname). For the island in the Galápagos, see Marchena Island.

Marchena

Male Marchena minuta in Humboldt County, California
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
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 and Nevada.[2]

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

## Description

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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

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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

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1. ^ a b "Salticidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
2. ^ a b 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

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* 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

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

Taxon identifiers

Marchena|

* Wikidata: Q962353
* Wikispecies: Marchena
* BioLib: 482917
* BugGuide: 1048246
* CoL: 5L7F
* EoL: 114323
* GBIF: 2176033
* iNaturalist: 420455
* IRMNG: 1392070
* ITIS: 872445
* Open Tree of Life: 3547625
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03056