Padillothorax

Not to be confused with Padillothorus.

Padillothorax is a genus of southeastern Asian jumping spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1901.^[2]

Padillothorax
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Padillothorax Simon, 1901[1]
Type species
P. semiostrinus Simon, 1901
Species
See text.

Taxonomy

First described by Eugène Simon in 1901, Padillothorax was synonymized with Stagetillus by Jerzy Prószyński in 1987.^[1] Stagetillus was placed in the tribe Baviini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae by Wayne Maddison in 2015,^[3] on the basis of molecular phylogenetic evidence, although only a single unidentified species of Stagetillus from Selangor was included in the analysis.^[4] In 2017, Prószyński recognized the genus again, but did not include the type species, Padillothorax semiostrinus, so his action was not valid under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. He included this species in 2018, thus successfully reviving the genus. He also transferred a species included in Padillothorax by Reimoser in 1927 to a new genus Padillothorus, leaving two species in Padillothorax.^[1][5]

Species

As of January 2021^[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:^[1]

• Padillothorax badut Maddison, 2020 – Malaysia (Borneo)
• Padillothorax casteti (Simon, 1900) – India
• Padillothorax exilis (Cao & Li, 2016) – China
• Padillothorax flavopunctus (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018) – Sri Lanka
• Padillothorax mulu Maddison, 2020 – Malaysia (Borneo)
• Padillothorax semiostrinus Simon, 1901 (type species) – Malaysia (peninsula), Singapore, Taiwan?
• Padillothorax taprobanicus Simon, 1902 – Sri Lanka