Marpissa Koch, 1845

Biswas, Bijan & Roy, Rakhi, 2008, Description Of Six New Species Of Spiders Of The Genera Lathys (Family: Dictynidae), Marpissa (Family: Salticidae), Misumenoides (Family: Thomisidae), Agroeca (Family: Clubionidae), Gnaphosa (Family: Gnaphosidae) And Flanona (Family: Lycosidae) - From India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 108 (1), pp. 43-57 : 46

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.556084

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4561872

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scientific name

Marpissa Koch
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Genus Marpissa Koch View in CoL View at ENA

1845. Marpissa View in CoL Koch, Die. Arachn., 13: 56.

1981. Marpissa: View in CoL Tikader and Biswas, Rec. zool. Surv. India, oCC. pap. No. (1): 93.

Diagnosis: Cephalothorax longer than wide, cephalic region flat and low, widest behind the dorsal eyes. Eye region occupying little more than one-third of the cephalothorax; ocular trapezium about 1.5 times broader than long, parallel sided. Chelicerae with one tooth on inner margin and two teeth on outer margin. Sternum narrowed in front. Legs usually 1423 in the male and 4132 in female. In both sexes tibiae and matatarsi I and 11 provided with three and two pairs of ventral spines respectively.

Type-species: Marpissa muscosa Clerck.

Distribution: Cosmopolitan.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

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