''Padillothorax'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of southeastern Asian

jumping spiders 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 ...

first described by Eugène Simon in 1901. it contains only two species.

Taxonomy

First described by Eugène Simon in 1901, ''Padillothorax'' was synonymized with '' Stagetillus'' 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 1987. ''Stagetillus'' was placed in the tribe Baviini, 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 by

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 resear ...

in 2015, on the basis of molecular phylogenetic evidence, although only a single unidentified species of ''Stagetillus'' from

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was included in the analysis. In 2017, Prószyński recognized the genus again, but did not include the type species, ''Padillothorax semiostrinus'', so his action was not valid under the

International Code of Zoological Nomenclature The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals. It is also informally known as the ICZN Code, for its publisher, the ...

. He included this species in 2018, thus successfully reviving the genus. He also transferred a species included in ''Padillothorax'' by Reimoser in 1927 to a new genus ''

Padillothorus ''Padillothorus'' is a genus of jumping spiders in the family Salticidae containing the single species, ''Padillothorus elegans''. It was first described by Jerzy Prószyński in 2018, and has only been found in Indonesia Indonesia, offi ...

'', leaving two species in ''Padillothorax''.

Species

, the

World Spider Catalog The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ...

accepted the following species: *'' Padillothorax badut'' Maddison, 2020 – Malaysia (Borneo) *'' Padillothorax casteti'' (Simon, 1900) – India *'' Padillothorax exilis'' (Cao & Li, 2016) – China *'' Padillothorax flavopunctus'' (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018) – Sri Lanka *'' Padillothorax mulu'' Maddison, 2020 – Malaysia (Borneo) *'' Padillothorax semiostrinus'' Simon, 1901 (

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) – Malaysia (peninsula), Singapore, Taiwan? *'' Padillothorax taprobanicus'' Simon, 1902 – Sri Lanka

References

Salticidae genera Salticidae {{Salticidae-stub