Asemonea

Asemonea is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869.[2]

Asemonea
Male Asemonea tenuipes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Asemoneinae
Genus: Asemonea
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869[1]
Type species
A. tenuipes
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869)
Species

23, see text

Species

As of July 2021 it contains twenty-three species, native to Asia and Africa. One species has been introduced to Queensland:[1]

  • Asemonea amatola Wesolowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
  • Asemonea bimaculata Dierkens, 2014 – Comoros, Mayotte
  • Asemonea clara Wesolowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
  • Asemonea crinita Wanless, 1980 – Ivory Coast
  • Asemonea cristata Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
  • Asemonea cuprea Wesolowska, 2009 – Zambia
  • Asemonea fimbriata Wanless, 1980 – Angola
  • Asemonea flava Wesolowska, 2001 – Kenya
  • Asemonea liberiensis Wanless, 1980 – Liberia
  • Asemonea maculata Wanless, 1980 – Ivory Coast
  • Asemonea minuta Wanless, 1980 – Angola
  • Asemonea murphyae Wanless, 1980 – Kenya, South Africa
  • Asemonea ornatissima Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Madagascar
  • Asemonea pallida Wesolowska, 2001 – Kenya
  • Asemonea pinangensis Wanless, 1980 – Malaysia
  • Asemonea pulchra Berland & Millot, 1941 – West, Central Africa
  • Asemonea serrata Wesolowska, 2001 – Kenya
  • Asemonea sichuanensis Song & Chai, 1992 – China
  • Asemonea stella Wanless, 1980 – Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa. Introduced to Australia (Queensland)
  • Asemonea tanikawai Ikeda, 1996 – Japan (Okinawa)
  • Asemonea tenuipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (type) – India, Sri Lanka to Thailand
  • Asemonea trispila Tang, Yin & Peng, 2006 – China
  • Asemonea virgea Wesolowska & Szűts, 2003 – Congo

References
  1. "Gen. Asemonea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869". World Spider Catalog Version 22.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1869). "Descriptions and sketches of some new species of Araneida, with characters of a new genus". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3 (4): 52–74. doi:10.1080/00222936908695878.
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  1. Szűts, T. (2000). "An Afrotropical species, Asemonea stella (Araneae: Salticidae) found in Australia". Folia Entomologica Hungarica. 61: 61–63.
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