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Ragatinus

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Ragatinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Ragatinus
Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016[1]
Species:
R. maddisoni
Binomial name
Ragatinus maddisoni
Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016[1]

Ragatinus is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. It was first described in 2016 by Angelika Dawidowicz and Wanda Wesołowska. As of 2017, it contains only one species, Ragatinus maddisoni.[1]

Dawidowicz and Wesołowska placed the genus in the subtribe Thiratoscirtina,[2] which is placed in the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae (tribe Aelurillini) in Maddison's 2015 classification of the Salticidae.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Salticidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-03-22.
  2. ^ Dawidowicz, Ł. & Wesołowska, W. (2016). "Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Kenya collected by Åke Holm". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa. 66 (3): 437–466. doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2016.66.3.010. S2CID 89556915.
  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