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Indopadilla insularis

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Species of spider

Indopadilla insularis
From Balugalu, Karnataka, India.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Indopadilla
Species: I. insularis
Binomial name
Indopadilla insularis
Malamel, Sankaran & Sebastian, 2015
Synonyms
  • Bavia insularis Malamel, Sankaran & Sebastian, 2015

Indopadilla insularis is a species of jumping spider from India.

Taxonomy

The species was originally described and placed in Bavia, it was also indicated that the genus was in need of revision, since many of its species were unrelated to the generotype. The species was later put into a newly erected genus Indopadilla.

The specific epithet "insularis" is a Latin adjective and refers to the nature of the type locality of the species.

Distribution

The species is currently known to occur in southern India. Its type locality is Pathiramanal Island of Kerala.


References

  1. ^ Malamel, Jobi J.; Sankaran, Pradeep M.; Sebastian, Pothalil A. (2015-08-31). "First record of the jumping spider genus Bavia Simon, 1877 from India, with the description of a new species". Zootaxa. 4007 (4). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4007.4.11. ISSN 1175-5334.
  2. ^ Caleb, J. T.; Sankaran, P. M.; Nafin, K. S.; Acharya, Sh. "Indopadilla, a new jumping spider genus from India (Araneae: Salticidae)". Arthropoda Selecta (in Russian). 28 (1): 567–574. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.4.10. ISSN 0136-006X.
  3. Bern, Natural History Museum. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
Taxon identifiers
Indopadilla insularis


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