Marchena
Genus of spiders
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Marchena is a genus of jumping spiders only found in the United States. Its only described species, M. minuta,[1] dwells on the barks of conifers along the west coast, especially California, Washington and Nevada.[2]
| Marchena | |
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| Male Marchena minuta in Humboldt County, California | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Marchena |
| Species: | M. minuta |
| Binomial name | |
| Marchena minuta (Peckham & Peckham, 1888)[1] | |
It forms a monophyletic group with the genera Afraflacilla, Pseudicius and Festucula.[3]
Description
This species can easily be distinguished from others in its range by the tubercles on the first femur of its first legs.[2] M. minuta has a body length of about 4 mm.
Name
The genus name is probably derived from the Spanish city of Marchena, Seville.[citation needed] As witnessed by other generic names, the describers had a habit of naming taxa after places unrelated to the species' distribution. The species name is Latin for "small, minute".