Huriinae Simon, 1901

Ruiz, Gustavo R. S. & Maddison, Wayne P., 2015, The new Andean jumping spider genus Urupuyu and its placement within a revised classification of the Amycoida (Araneae: Salticidae), Zootaxa 4040 (3), pp. 251-279 : 275

Subfamily Huriinae Simon, 1901

Hurieae Simon, 1901: 583 (Type genus: Hurius Simon, 1901 ); Galiano 1988.

Monophyly: Huriines have unremarkable, “average” body forms for a salticid, with relatively short and robust legs and cryptic or dark markings, but such an unremarkable body is unusual among the amycoids. Their most distinctive morphological feature is the presence of two or three well-developed tibial apophyses pointing towards the tip of the cymbium ( Galiano 1988). Urupuyu , the newly described member of huriines, agrees with the other characters previously established by Galiano (1988) as diagnostic for the subfamily: a single tooth on the retromargin of the chelicerae, and fourth leg longer than the third. However, the exact same pattern of cheliceral teeth reduction is also seen in bredines ( Ruiz & Brescovit 2013), some thiodinines (e.g. Galiano 1976) and some amycine genera ( Braul & Lise 2002; Ruiz 2011). The fourth leg longer than the third is standard for all amycoids except amycines. Nonetheless, our molecular data offers some support to Galiano’s (after Simon’s 1901) concept of the subfamily by uniting Urupuyu , Scoturius and Hurius .