Habronattus viridipes group
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The H. viridipes group consists of those species with modified first and third legs that lack the secondarily straightened tegular apophysis characteristic of the H. coecatus group.
Characteristics
Like the coecatus group, the viridipes group has a fringed first leg and modified third leg.
Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships
The tree shown above is that from Griswold (1987), but recent evidence suggests that the viridipes group might be best divided into two, the viridipes group proper consisting of:- viridipes
- calcaratus
- notialis
- jucundus
- clypeatus
- formosus
- dossenus
- californicus
- divaricatus
- aztecanus
(the placement of forticulus and velivolus is not clear).
These two subgroups show distinctively different courtship behaviors (Maddison, unpublished). The viridipes group proper has a raised v of scales between the back eyes; the clypeatus group has a more prominent stridulatory organ. Some preliminary molecular data (Hedin and Maddison, unpublished) and aspects of the ornamentation hint that the clypeatus group may be more closely related to the coecatus group than to the virdipes group proper.
References
Griswold, C. E. 1987. A revision of the jumping spider genus Habronattus F.O.P.-Cambridge (Araneae; Salticidae), with phenetic and cladistic analyses. University of California Publications, Entomology 107: 1-344.
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Scientific Name | Habronattus notialis |
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Location | Thomson, Georgia, USA |
Specimen Condition | Live Specimen |
Sex | Male |
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© 1994-1995 Wayne Maddison
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Maddison, Wayne. 1995. Habronattus viridipes group. Version 01 January 1995 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Habronattus_viridipes_group/4003/1995.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/