Omoedus Thorell, 1881
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Genus Omoedus Thorell, 1881 View in CoL View at ENA
Omoedus Thorell, 1881: 668 View in CoL , type species: Omoedus niger Thorell, 1881 View in CoL .
Zenodorus Peckham & Peckham, 1886: 287 View in CoL , type species: Attus d'urvillii Walckenaer, 1837. New Synonym
Pystira Simon, 1901: 656 View in CoL , type species: Hadrosoma ephippigerum Simon, 1885 . New Synonym
Small to large spiders with various color patterns. First leg usually has three pairs of ventral macrosetae on tibia and two pairs on metatarsus. Male palp usually has long and highly coiled embolus, without proximal tegular lobe. Epigynum has a large window with a median septum of various shapes. Vulva is posterior to the window. Copulatory duct is usually long and convoluted. Spermatheca is not strongly swollen, but small and tubular, and not very distinctive from the copulatory duct.
Remarks. Although the carapace of Omoedus and Pystira usually is higher than that of typical Zenodorus and has a shallow concavity at the posterior end, their genitalia do share the same pattern with those of Zenodorus , such as the absence of proximal tegular lobe and the highly coiled embolus of the male palp, the long and convoluted copulatory duct and the small and tubular spermatheca of the vulva. Unpublished molecular data indicate Omoedus , Pystira and Zenodorus form a clade, with Omoedus and Pystira embedded within Zenodorus . Hence, we merge them as one genus and consider Pystira and Zenodorus as junior synonyms of Omoedus . Five species once placed in Pystira and 23 species in Zenodorus ( Platnick 2012) are therefore transferred into Omoedus :
Omoedus cyanothorax ( Thorell, 1881) (from Pystira , New Combination)
Omoedus ephippigerus (Simon, 1885) (from Pystira , New Combination)
Omoedus karschi ( Thorell, 1881) (from Pystira , New Combination)
Omoedus nigripalpis (Thorell, 1877) (from Pystira , New Combination)
Omoedus versicolor (Dyal, 1935) (from Pystira , New Combination)
Omoedus albertisi ( Thorell, 1881) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus arcipluvii (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus asper (Karsch, 1878) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus danae (Hogg, 1915) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus durvillei (Walckenaer, 1837) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus formosus (Rainbow, 1899) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus jucundus (Rainbow, 1912) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus juliae ( Thorell, 1881) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus lepidus (Guérin, 1834) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus marginatus (Simon, 1902) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus metallescens (L. Koch, 1879) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus microphthalmus (L. Koch, 1881) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus niger (Karsch, 1878) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus obscurofemoratus (Keyserling, 1883) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus orbiculatus (Keyserling, 1881) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus ponapensis ( Berry, Beatty & Prószyṅski, 1996) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus pupulus ( Thorell, 1881) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus pusillus (Strand, 1913) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus rhodopae (Hogg, 1915) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus syrinx (Hogg, 1915) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus variatus (Pocock, 1899) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus varicans ( Thorell, 1881) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
Omoedus wangillus (Strand, 1911) (from Zenodorus , New Combination)
In addition, seven new species from Papua New Guinea are described here.
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Omoedus Thorell, 1881
Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, Wayne P. 2012 |
Pystira
Simon, E. 1901: 656 |
Zenodorus
Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. 1886: 287 |
Omoedus
Thorell, T. 1881: 668 |