Pellenes vanharteni
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| Pellenes vanharteni | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Pellenes |
| Species: | P. vanharteni |
| Binomial name | |
| Pellenes vanharteni Wesołowska, 1998 | |
Pellenes vanharteni is a species of jumping spider in the genus Pellenes that lives on the islands of Cape Verde, where it is one of the most abundant spiders. Named after the entomologist Antonius van Harten, the species is a very small spider with a dark brown carapace that is typically 1.3 mm (0.05 in) long and a yellowish-white abdomen typically 1.2 mm (0.05 in) long. There is a distinctive pattern on the abdomen that consists of two greyish-brown patches around a serrated central stripe that helps to distinguish the species from others in the genus. The underside of the spider is lighter than the top, the sternum being yellow. White hairs can be seen on the spider's clypeus. Its front legs are black and longer than the rest, which are also lighter. Although the female has not been described, the male looks as if it has a double narrow spike-like embolus.
Pellenes vanharteni is a species of jumping spider, a member of the family Salticidae, that was first described by the arachnologist Wanda Wesołowska in 1998.[1] She allocated the spider to the genus Pellenes, which had been first circumscribed in 1876 by Eugène Simon.[2] The species is named after the entomologist Antonius van Harten.[3] In 2000, Dmitri Logunov and Yuri Marusik divided the genus Pellenes into four subgenera, based on the shape of the male palpal bulb.[4]
Wayne Maddison placed the genus Pellenes in the subtribe Harmochirina in the tribe Plexippini in 2015.[5] This had previously been known as Harmochireae, as circumscribed by Simon in 1903.[6] It is allocated to the subclade Saltafresia in the clade Salticoida.[7] It is a member of Plexippoida.[8] In 2016, Jerzy Prószyński grouped the genus with Dexippus under the name Pelenines, named after the genus.[9] It is allocated to the supergroup Hylloida.[10] Phylogenetic analysis of molecular data demonstrates that the genus is most closely related to Habronattus and Havaika.[11]