pachyballus, genus, jumping, spiders, that, first, described, eugène, louis, simon, 1900, while, most, found, africa, nearby, regions, species, endemic, caledonia, name, combination, ancient, greek, παχύς, pachys, meaning, thick, salticid, genus, ballus, casta. Pachyballus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugene Louis Simon in 1900 2 While most are found in Africa and nearby regions one species is endemic to New Caledonia The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek paxys pachys meaning thick and the salticid genus Ballus PachyballusPachyballus castaneusScientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ArthropodaSubphylum ChelicerataClass ArachnidaOrder AraneaeInfraorder AraneomorphaeFamily SalticidaeSubfamily SalticinaeGenus PachyballusSimon 1900 1 Type speciesP transversusSimon 1900Species7 see textPachyballus rotundus was transferred to its own genus Planiemen in 2007 and Pachyballus oyo was transferred to Peplometus in 2020 1 Species editAs of April 2021 update it contains nine species and one subspecies found only in Africa and on New Caledonia 1 Pachyballus caelestis Wesolowska Azarkina amp Wisniewski 2020 Democratic Republic of the Congo Pachyballus castaneus Simon 1900 South Africa Pachyballus flavipes Simon 1910 Ivory Coast Equatorial Guinea Bioko Tanzania Kenya Pachyballus f aurantius Caporiacco 1949 Kenya Pachyballus gambeyi Simon 1880 New Caledonia Pachyballus miniscutulus Wesolowska Azarkina amp Wisniewski 2020 South Africa Pachyballus mombasensis Wesolowska Azarkina amp Wisniewski 2020 Kenya Pachyballus ornatus Wesolowska Azarkina amp Wisniewski 2020 Democratic Republic of the Congo Tanzania Pachyballus transversus Simon 1900 type Guinea Bissau Congo Zanzibar South Africa Pachyballus variegatus Lessert 1925 TanzaniaReferences edit a b c Gen Pachyballus Simon 1900 World Spider Catalog Version 22 0 Natural History Museum Bern 2021 doi 10 24436 2 Retrieved 2021 04 12 Simon E 1900 Descriptions d arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 44 381 407 External links editPhotograph of Pachyballus sp nbsp This article related to jumping spiders Salticidae is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pachyballus amp oldid 1061884758, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,