Sitticinae 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 : 272

Subfamily Sitticinae Simon, 1901

Sitticeae Simon, 1901: 577, 1053 (Type genus: Sitticus Simon, 1901 ). Sitticinae : Petrunkevitch 1928: 205; Roewer 1954; Prószyński 1976.

Monophyly and relationships: Sitticines are easily recognized among amycoids by the loss of the retromarginal tooth (e.g. Galiano 1987). Sitticines are also distinctive for the fourth leg being much longer than the relatively short third leg. Their endites are convergent, lacking prominent expansion distally. Molecular data strongly support the subfamily’s monophyly ( Figs 36 , 37 , 39, 41 ). They also suggest that Aillutticus is the sister group to Jollas + Sitticus , although the monophyly of Sitticus cannot be assured, as we have only two species included in the analyses.

Figures

FIGURE 36. Summary of molecular phylogeny results. Numbers show likelihood bootstrap percentages, in format <chimera analysis> / <non-chimera analysis> (<analysis without Nilakantha and Gypogyna>).

FIGURES 37 – 38. Maximum likelikhood phylogenies from Chimera and Non-chimera matrices, combined 5 gene analyses. Numbers show likelihood bootstrap % for Amycoids only; in parenthesis are bootstrap percentages for analysis without Nilakantha and Gypogyna (shown for deep amycoid branches only). Rectangles at nodes indicate bootstrap support in parsimony analysis (filled rectangle at least 75 %; open 50 % to 74 %). Sites partitioned as per PartitionFinder analysis.

FIGURES 39 – 43. Maximum likelihood phylogenies from analyses on individual genes.