''Nepalicius'' is a genus of spiders in the family

Salticidae Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...

. It was first described in 2016 by Prószyński. , it contains 3 species.

Taxonomy

The genus ''Nepalicius'' was one of a number of new genera erected 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 ...

in 2016, largely for species formerly placed in ''

Pseudicius ''Pseudicius'' is a genus of the jumping spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1885. The name is combined of Greek ''pseudo'' "false" and the salticid genus name '' Icius''. The small genus '' Wesolowskana'' (formerly known as ''Luxuria'') ...

''. Prószyński placed these genera in his informal group "pseudiciines", with ''Pseudicius'' as the representative genus. In

Wayne Maddison Wayne Paul Maddison , is a professor and Canada Research Chair at the departments of zoology and botany at the University of British Columbia, and the Director of the Spencer Entomological Collection at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. His research ...

's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae, ''Pseudicius'', broadly

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, is placed in the tribe Chrysillini, 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

''Nepalicius'' comprises the following species: *'' Nepalicius koreanus'' ( Wesołowska, 1981) *'' Nepalicius nepalicus'' (Andreeva, Heciak & Prószyński, 1984) *'' Nepalicius seychellensis'' (Wanless, 1984)

References

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