Siler (spider)

Genus of spiders

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Siler.

Siler

S. cupreus from Japan
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Salticidae
Subfamily:  | Salticinae
Genus:  | Siler
Simon, 1889[1]
Type species
S. cupreus

Simon, 1889

Species

9, see text

Synonyms[1]

* Silerella Strand, 1906[2]

Siler is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.[3] They specialize in hunting ants.[4]

## Species

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As of March 2024[update] it contains twelve species, found only in Asia:[1]

* Siler bielawskii Zabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam
* Siler collingwoodi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) – China, Japan
* Siler cupreus Simon, 1889 (type) – China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
* Siler flavocinctus (Simon, 1901) – Singapore
* Siler hanoicus Prószyński, 1985 – Vietnam
* Siler lewaense Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 – Indonesia (Sumba)
* Siler niser Caleb, Parag & Datta-Roy, 2023 \- India
* Siler pulcher Simon, 1901 – Malaysia
* Siler ruber Baba, Yamasaki & Tanikawa, 2019 \- Japan
* Siler semiglaucus (Simon, 1901) – India to Philippines
* Siler severus (Simon, 1901) – China
* Siler zhangae Wang & Li, 2020 \- China

## References

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1. ^ a b c "Gen. Siler Simon, 1889". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. ^ Prószyński, J. (1984). "Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae)". Wyższa Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna, Siedlcach. 2: 135.
3. ^ Simon, E. (1889). "Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXXIII. Descriptions de quelques espèces receillies au Japon, par A. Mellotée". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 8 (6): 248–252.
4. ^ Jackson, RR; Van Olphen, A (May 1992). "Prey-capture techniques and prey preferences of Chrysilla, Natta and Siler, ant-eating jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Kenya and Sri Lanka". Journal of Zoology. 227 (1): 163–170\. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1992.tb04351.x.

## External links

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* Photograph of S. semiglaucus (?)

Taxon identifiers

Siler|

* Wikidata: Q238258
* Wikispecies: Siler (Simon)
* ADW: Siler
* BioLib: 474164
* BOLD: 646229
* CoL: 63T2Z
* EoL: 114482
* GBIF: 2176808
* iNaturalist: 358359
* IRMNG: 1051419
* ITIS: 873026
* NCBI: 1112553
* Open Tree of Life: 824759
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03225

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