Phylogenetic placement of the unusual jumping spider Depreissia Lessert, and a new synapomorphy uniting Hisponinae and Salticinae (Araneae, Salticidae)

Wayne P Maddison; David R Maddison; Junxia Zhang; Tamás Szűts

doi:10.3897/zookeys.549.6171

Phylogenetic placement of the unusual jumping spider Depreissia Lessert, and a new synapomorphy uniting Hisponinae and Salticinae (Araneae, Salticidae)

Zookeys. 2016 Jan 5:(549):1-12. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.549.6171. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Wayne P Maddison¹, David R Maddison², Junxia Zhang³, Tamás Szűts⁴

Affiliations

¹ Beaty Biodiversity Museum and Departments of Botany and Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4 Canada.
² Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
³ Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
⁴ Department of Zoology, Savaria University Centre, University of West Hungary, Szombathely, H-9700 Hungary; Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.

Abstract

The relationships of the unusual salticid spider Depreissia from central Africa and Borneo have been difficult to resolve, obscured by its highly modified ant-like body. Phylogenetic analysis of the gene 28S strongly supports its placement outside the major clade Salticinae and within the clade of cocalodines, spartaeines and lapsiines, with weaker support for a relationship with the cocalodines in particular. Excluding the genus from the Salticinae is supported also by the presence of a median apophysis on the male palp, and by the lack of a cymbial apical groove cradling the tip of embolus, which is newly presented here as a synapomorphy of Hisponinae plus Salticinae.

Keywords: Cocalodini; Jumping spiders; Salticidae; phylogeny; systematics.