Icius
Genus of spiders
Icius is a genus of jumping spiders described by Eugène Simon in 1876, belonging to the Order Araneae , Family Salticidae .[ 1]
Distribution
Icius is an almost cosmopolitan genus, widespread in Europe (mainly in Belgium , Croatia , France , Germany , Italy , Greece , Poland , Romania , Portugal , southern Russia , Slovenia , Switzerland , Spain and in The Netherlands ), as well in Asia , Africa and in Central and South America (one species, Icius pallidulus is endemic of Micronesia ).[ 2]
Species
As of July 2023, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:[ 1]
Icius abnormis Denis, 1958 – Afghanistan
Icius alboterminus (Caleb, 2014) – India , Nepal
Icius bamboo Cao & Li, 2016 – China
Icius bandama Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 – Ivory Coast
Icius bilobus Yang & Tang, 1996 – China
Icius brunellii Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
Icius cervinus Simon , 1878 – Russia
Icius congener Simon, 1871 – Western Mediterranean
Icius crassipes Simon, 1868 – Spain , Algeria , Tunisia
Icius dendryphantoides Strand , 1909 – South Africa
Icius desertorum Simon, 1901 – South Africa
Icius fagei (Lessert, 1925) – Tanzania
Icius glaucochirus (Thorell , 1890) – Sumatra
Icius grassei (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Malawi , Nigeria , DR Congo , Kenya
Icius hamatus (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Palearctic
Icius ildefonsus Chamberlin, 1924 – Mexico
Icius inhonestus Keyserling , 1878 – Uruguay
Icius insolidus (Wesołowska, 1999) – Nigeria, southern Africa
Icius insolitus Alicata & Cantarella, 1994 – Algeria
Icius kumariae Caleb, 2017 – India
Icius lamellatus Wunderlich, 2011 – Portugal , Italy
Icius mbitaensis Wesołowska, 2011 – Kenya
Icius minimus Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
Icius niger Peelle & Saito, 1933 – Kuril Islands
Icius nigricaudus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009 – South Africa
Icius ocellatus Pavesi, 1883 – East Africa
Icius olokomei Wesołowska & A. Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria
Icius pallidulus Nakatsudi, 1943 – Micronesia
Icius peculiaris Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
Icius pulchellus Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011 – South Africa
Icius separatus Banks , 1903 – Hispaniola
Icius simoni Alicata & Cantarella, 1994 – Algeria
Icius steeleae Logunov, 2004 – Sudan , Kenya, Uganda
Icius subinermis Simon, 1937 – Mediterranean, Germany , Hungary , Romania . Introduced to USA
Icius testaceolineatus (Lucas , 1846) – Algeria
Icius tukarami Prajapati, Kumbhar, Caleb, Sanap & Kamboj, 2021 – India
Icius vikrambatrai Prajapati, Malamel, Sudhikumar & Sebastian, 2018 – India
Icius yadongensis Hu, 2001 – China
References
^ a b World Spider Catalog (2023). "Gen. Icius Simon, 1876" . World Spider Catalog . 24.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 9 July 2023 .
^ Proszynski, Jerzy (2005). "Gen. Icius Simon, 1876" . Catalogue of Salticidae (Araneae): Synthesis of Quotations in the World Literature since 1758 . Retrieved 13 July 2017 .
Simon, 1876 - Les arachnides de France, Paris, vol.3, p. 1-364
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