Kelawakaju gen. nov., a new Asian lineage of marpissine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Marpissina)

Maddison WP 1 , Ruiz GRS 2 , Ng PYC 3 , Vishnudas EH 4 , Sudhikumar AV 4

Affiliations 

  • 1 Departments of Zoology and Botany and Beaty Biodiversity Museum, University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4, Canada University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada
  • 2 Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Rua Augusto Corrêa, 01, CEP 66075-110, Belém, PA, Brazil Universidade Federal do Para Belém Brazil
  • 3 205 River Valley Road, #16-53, Singapore 238274, Singapore Unaffiliated Singapore Singapore
  • 4 Centre for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Department of Zoology, Christ College, Irinjalakuda, Kerala, 680 125, India Christ College Irinjalakuda India
Zookeys, 2022;1130:79-102.
PMID: 36761014 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1130.87730

Abstract

The genus Kelawakaju Maddison & Ruiz, gen. nov., is described for a lineage of bark-dwelling Asian marpissine jumping spiders that represent a dispersal to Eurasia separate from that of the Marpissa-Mendoza lineage, according to the phylogeny recovered from analysis of four gene regions. All species of Kelawakaju are new to science except Kelawakajufrenata (Simon, 1901), comb. nov., which is transferred from Ocrisiona Simon, 1901. Kelawakajufrenata is known from Hong Kong, Guangdong, Guangxi, and likely Taiwan. The five new species are Kelawakajumulu Maddison & Ruiz, sp. nov. (type species of Kelawakaju, from Sarawak, Malaysia, ♂♀), K.intexta Maddison & Ruiz, sp. nov. (from Sarawak, ♂), K.leucomelas Maddison & Ng, sp. nov. (Singapore and Johor Bahru, ♂♀), K.sahyadri Vishnudas, Maddison, & Sudhikumar, sp. nov. (India, ♂♀), and K.singapura Maddison & Ng, sp. nov. (Singapore, ♂♀).

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