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''Rudakius'' is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. It was first described in 2016 by Prószyński. , it contains 7 species.


Taxonomy

The genus ''Rudakius'' 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''. 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
circumscribed In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius. Not every polyg ...
, 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

''Rudakius'' comprises the following species: * '' Rudakius afghanicus'' (Andreeva, Heciak & Prószyński, 1984)
Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
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Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
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Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
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Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...
* ''
Rudakius cinctus ''Rudakius'' is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. It was first described in 2016 by Prószyński. , it contains 7 species. Taxonomy The genus ''Rudakius'' was one of a number of new genera erected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016, largel ...
'' (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) – Iran,
Central Asia Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes t ...
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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 ...
* ''
Rudakius ludhianaensis ''Rudakius'' is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. It was first described in 2016 by Prószyński. , it contains 7 species. Taxonomy The genus ''Rudakius'' was one of a number of new genera erected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016, large ...
'' (Tikader, 1974)
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
* '' Rudakius maureri'' (Prószyński, 1992)
Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
* '' Rudakius rudakii'' (Prószyński, 1992) – Iran * ''
Rudakius spasskyi ''Rudakius'' is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. It was first described in 2016 by Prószyński. , it contains 7 species. Taxonomy The genus ''Rudakius'' was one of a number of new genera erected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016, large ...
'' (Andreeva, Heciak & Prószyński, 1984) – Iran, Central Asia * ''
Rudakius wenshanensis ''Rudakius'' is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. It was first described in 2016 by Prószyński. , it contains 7 species. Taxonomy The genus ''Rudakius'' was one of a number of new genera erected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016, large ...
'' (He & Hu, 1999) – China


References

Salticidae Salticidae genera Spiders of Asia {{Salticidae-stub