Pilia Simon 1902
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Anatomy, Saveetha Medical College & Hospital, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Saveetha University, Chennai 602105, Tamil Nadu, India
- 2. # 84, 6 th A Main, Tata Silk Farm, Basvangudi, Bangalore 560004, Karnataka, India
- 3. Indraprastha Organic Farm, Kalalwadi Village, Udboor Post, Mysuru 570008, Karnataka, India
- 4. 104, Sagar Xia, Sagar hills, Saripalla Neermarga, Mangalore 575029, Karnataka, India
Description
Genus Pilia Simon, 1902
Type species: Pilia saltabunda Simon, 1902 (by original designation).
Diagnosis. Pilia is most similar to Bristowia Reimoser, 1934 in having long and robust first pair of legs, tibia I with dense fringe of long, thick hairs ventrally. But it differs from Bristowia by: Carapace with a bunch of thick hairs just inward of each PLE (absent in Bristowia) (Simon 1903; Reimoser 1934; Metzner 2025). Leg I with strongly incrassate femur and tibia (normal but elongated in Bristowia). The male palps have a simple bulb without any projection or bulge (posterior portion of bulb broad and bulged in Bristowia); retrolateral shoulder of tegulum high either above embolic base or slightly lower (significantly lower in Bristowia); distal projection of embolar tegular branch small and insignificant (prominent, projecting beyond retrolateral lobe of tegulum in Bristowia) (see fig. 1a in Deeleman-Reinhold et al. 2024 for terminology); epigyne simple with a pair of circular windows; copulatory duct long with an anterior loop (copulatory ducts bent without any loop in Bristowia); spermathecae elongated, tubular (globular without any other modification in Bristowia) (Szűts 2004; Kanesharatnam & Benjamin 2016).
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5716.2.7 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/17889329 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/6752685AFFD69147FF9BD739FFC6FFB6 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/2FE720F4-2A2F-4DB9-8FF0-DDC858B41801 (URL)
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- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/9B6B1022FFD79146FF0CD203FAE2F895 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Simon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Salticidae
- Genus
- Pilia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pilia Simon, 1902 sec. Caleb, Padiyar, Abhijith & Pai, 2025
References
- Simon, E. (1902) Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 46, 24-56 + 363 - 406.
- Reimoser, E. (1934) The spiders of Krakatau. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 104 (1), 11-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1934.tb06215.x
- Simon, E. (1903) Histoire naturelle des araignees. Deuxieme Edition. Tome Second. Roret, Paris, 412 pp. [pp. 669-1080] https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.51973
- Metzner, H. (2025) Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Available from: https://www.jumpingspiders.com (accessed 24 July 2025)
- Deeleman-Reinhold, C., Addink, W. & Miller, J. (2024) The genera Chrysilla and Phintelloides revisited with the description of a new species (Araneae, Salticidae) using digital specimen DOIs and nanopublications. Biodiversity Data Journal, 12 (e 129438), 1-57. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e129438
- Szuts, T. (2004) A revision of the genus Bristowia (Araneae: Salticidae). Folia Entomologica Hungarica, 65, 25-31.
- Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S. P. (2016) Three new generic records and descriptions of four new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sri Lanka. European Journal of Taxonomy, 228, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.228