Indomarengo Benjamin, 2004

Wang, Cheng & Li, Shuqiang, 2020, Seven new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Xishuangbanna, China, ZooKeys 968, pp. 43-69 : 43

Genus Indomarengo Benjamin, 2004

Type species.

Indomarengo sarawakensis Benjamin, 2004

Comments.

This genus only contains four species, all endemic: one from Borneo, two from Indonesia and one from India. Two are known only from a single sex: I. chandra Benjamin, 2004 from males and I. thomsoni (Wanless 1978) from females ( WSC 2020). The genus can be distinguished from all other Ballini genera, except Sadies Wanless, 1984, Leikung Benjamin, 2004, and Afromarengo Benjamin, 2004, by the presence of a carapace protuberance. It can be distinguished from Afromarengo and Leikung by the short embolus, which has less than two spirals, and from Sadies by the lack of leaf-like carapace scales ( Benjamin 2004).