Pochytoides
Genus of spiders
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Pochytoides is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska in 2020.[1]
| Pochytoides | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Pochytoides Wesołowska, 2020 |
| Type species | |
| Pochyta poissoni (Berland & Millot, 1941) | |
| Species | |
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Taxonomy
The group was first described by Berland and Millot in 1941 as a subgenus of the genus Pochyta.[2] It was elevated to a full genus by Wanda Wesołowska in 2018.[3] However, neither name was valid as no type species had been given. Wesołowska corrected this in 2020, designating Pochyta poissoni.[1]
Like Pochyta, Pochytoides is placed in the tribe Aelurillini in the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[3]
Species
As of October 2022[update] the genus contained eleven species. All species are known from Guinea and/or Ivory Coast:[4]
- Pochytoides lamottei (Wesołowska, 2018)
- Pochytoides mirabilis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
- Pochytoides monticola (Wesołowska, 2018)
- Pochytoides obstipa (Wesołowska, 2018)
- Pochytoides patellaris (Wesołowska, 2018)
- Pochytoides perezi (Berland & Millot, 1941)
- Pochytoides poissoni (Berland & Millot, 1941)
- Pochytoides securis (Wesołowska, 2018)
- Pochytoides spinigera (Wesołowska, 2018)
- Pochytoides tonkoui Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
- Pochytoides tournieri Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
