Matinta is a genus of South American jumping spiders (family Salticidae). The largest number of species are found in Brazil.[1]

Matinta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Matinta
Ruiz & Maddison, 2019[1]
Type species
M. acutidens
(Simon, 1900)[1]
Species

19, see text

Taxonomy

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Matinta was first described by G. R. S. Ruiz, Wayne Paul Maddison & María Elena Galiano in 2019.[2] A re-examination of the holotype of the type species of the genus Mago showed that the genus had been misinterpreted, so that species had been included in the genus that did not fit the diagnosis. Accordingly, Ruiz et al. created a new genus, Matinta, to which most of the former Mago genera were transferred. Matinta, like Mago, was placed in the tribe Amycini,[2] part of the Amycoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[3]

Species

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As of July 2019 it contains nineteen species, found in Ecuador, Brazil, Guyana, Peru, and French Guiana:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Matinta Ruiz & Maddison, 2019". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
  2. ^ a b Ruiz, G. R. S.; Maddison, W. P.; Galiano, M. E. (2019). "A revision of the concept of Mago O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882, and proposal of a new genus (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycini)". Zootaxa. 4658 (1): 124–140. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4658.1.5. PMID 31716759. S2CID 202019661.
  3. ^ Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID 85680279.