Pellenes luculentus
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| Pellenes luculentus | |
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| The related Pellenes nigrociliatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Pellenes |
| Species: | P. luculentus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pellenes luculentus Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007 | |
Pellenes luculentus is a species of jumping spider in the genus Pellenes that lives in Yemen. It was first described in 2007 by Wanda Wesołowska and Antonius van Harten. The spider is medium-sized, with a carapace that measures typically 2.2 mm (0.09 in) in length and an abdomen 2.2 mm (0.09 in) in length. The female has a light fawn and yellowish body, as recalled in the species name, which is derived from a Latin word for "light". The female has copulatory organs that are similar to other species in the genus, with a septum, or wall, in the middle of ita epigyne. It can be distinguished by its clearer and wider copulatory openings, hidden in deep pits, and longer insemination ducts. The male has not been described.
Pellenes luculentus is a species of jumping spider that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska and Antonius van Harten in 2007.[1] It was one of over 500 species identified by the Polish arachnologist Wesołowska during her career, more than any other contemporary writer and second only to Eugène Simon.[2] They allocated the spider to the subgenus Pelmirus in the genus Pellenes.[3] Pellenes had been first circumscribed by Simon in 1876.[4] The species is named after a Latin word that can be translated "light".[5]
Wayne Maddison placed the genus Pellenes in the subtribe Harmochirina in the tribe Plexippini in 2015.[6] This had previously been known as Harmochireae, as circumscribed by Simon in 1903.[7] It is allocated to the subclade Saltafresia in the clade Salticoida.[8] The spider is a member of Plexippoida.[9] Phylogenetic analysis of molecular data demonstrates that the genus is most closely related to Habronattus and Havaika.[10] In 2016, Jerzy Prószyński grouped the genus with Dexippus under the name Pelenines, named after the genus.[11] This is allocated to the supergroup Hylloida.[12]