''Nandicius'' is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. It was first described in 2016 by

Jerzy Prószyński Jerzy Prószyński (born 1935 in Warsaw) is a Polish arachnologist specializing in systematics of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, a long-term employee of the Siedlce University of Natural Scienc ...

. , it contains 7 Asian species.

Taxonomy

The genus ''Nandicius'' was one of a number of new genera erected by

in 2016, largely for species formerly placed in '' Pseudicius''. Prószyński placed ''Nandicius'' in his informal group "chrysillines". In Wayne Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae, the tribe Chrysillini is part of the

Salticoida Salticoida is an unranked clade of the jumping spider family Salticidae. It is the larger and more widespread of the two subdivisions of the "typical" jumping spiders (subfamily Salticinae), occurring effectively world-wide. Its sister clade is ...

clade of the subfamily

Salticinae Salticinae is a subfamily of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). It includes over 90% of the known species of jumping spiders. The subfamily is divided into two unranked clades: Amycoida and Salticoida. Description Members of the subfamily Sa ...

Species

''Nandicius'' comprises the following species: * '' Nandicius cambridgei'' (Prószyński & Zochowska, 1981) – Central Asia,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

* '' Nandicius deletus'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – China * ''

Nandicius frigidus ''Nandicius'' is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. It was first described in 2016 by Jerzy Prószyński. , it contains 7 Asian species. Taxonomy The genus ''Nandicius'' was one of a number of new genera erected by Jerzy Prószyński ...

'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, China * '' Nandicius kimjoopili'' (Kim, 1995) – Korea,

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

* '' Nandicius mussooriensis'' (Prószyński, 1992) – India * '' Nandicius pseudoicioides'' (Caporiacco, 1935) – Himalayas * '' Nandicius szechuanensis'' (Logunov, 1995) – China

References

Salticidae Salticidae genera Spiders of Asia {{Salticidae-stub