''Padillothorus'' 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
jumping spider
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 ...
s in the family Salticidae containing the single species, ''Padillothorus elegans''.
[ It was first described 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 2018,Indonesia
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.[ Simon had placed ''Padillothorax'' and ''Stagetillus'' in his group Bavieae,][ now the tribe Baviini in Maddison's 2015 classification of Salticidae.][ Since the male of ''Padillothorus elegans'' is unknown, Prószyński considered that classification to any group of genera was impossible.][
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References
Monotypic Salticidae genera
Salticidae
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