Soesiladeepakius

Soesiladeepakius is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.

Soesiladeepakius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Spartaeinae
Genus: Soesiladeepakius
Makhan, 2007[1]
Diversity[1]
7 species

The type species S. aschnae is only known from male specimens. These are 2.4 mm long, with a brown carapace.

Validity

The genus describer Dewanand Makhan publishes in the Australian journal Calodema, whose editor seems to have no quality standards whatsoever, while comparing scientists in general with Hitler and Stalin.[2] While Makhan's work on ants and beetles is substandard (describing existing species without knowledge of the fundamental literature),[3] Soesiladeepakius seems to have been accepted by the arachnologist community, with six species having been added by Ruiz & Maddison in 2012.[4]

Name

The genus is a combination of the given names Soesila and Deepak, the wife and son of the describer. The type species is named after the describer's daughter Aschna.[5]

Species
  • Soesiladeepakius arthrostylus Ruiz & Maddison, 2012 — Brazil
  • Soesiladeepakius aschnae Makhan, 2007 — Suriname
  • Soesiladeepakius biarmatus Ruiz & Maddison, 2012 — Brazil
  • Soesiladeepakius gasnieri Ruiz & Maddison, 2012 — Brazil
  • Soesiladeepakius lyra Ruiz & Maddison, 2012 — Brazil
  • Soesiladeepakius retroversus Ruiz & Maddison, 2012 — Brazil
  • Soesiladeepakius uncinatus Ruiz & Maddison, 2012 — Brazil

See also

References
  1. "Gen. Soesiladeepakius Makhan, 2007". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
  2. "The Rogue Taxonomist". Myrmecos Blog. 13 December 2007. Archived from the original on 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
  3. Jäch, M.A. (2006). "Taxonomy and nomenclature threatened by D. Makhan" (PDF). Koleopterologische Rundschau. 76: 360. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
  4. Ruiz, Gustavo & Maddison, Wayne P. (2012). "DNA sequences corroborate Soesiladeepakius as a non-salticoid genus of jumping spiders: placement with lapsiines, phylogeny, and description of six new species (Araneae, Salticidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 165 (2): 274–295. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00815.x.
  5. Makhan, Dewanand (2007). "Soesiladeepakius aschnae gen. et sp. nov. and Soesilarishius amrishi gen. et sp. nov. from Suriname (Araneae: Salticidae)" (PDF). Calodema Supplementary Paper. 60. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2017-04-03.


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