Pachyballus

Pachyballus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.^[2] While most are found in Africa and nearby regions, one species is endemic to New Caledonia. The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek παχύς ("pachys"), meaning "thick", and the salticid genus Ballus.

Pachyballus rotundus was transferred to its own genus Planiemen in 2007 and Pachyballus oyo was transferred to Peplometus in 2020.^[1]

Species

As of April 2021^[update] it contains nine species and one subspecies, found only in Africa and on New Caledonia:^[1]

Pachyballus caelestis Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 – Democratic Republic of the Congo
Pachyballus castaneus Simon, 1900 – South Africa
Pachyballus flavipes Simon, 1910 – Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Tanzania, Kenya
- Pachyballus f. aurantius Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
Pachyballus gambeyi (Simon, 1880) – New Caledonia
Pachyballus miniscutulus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 – South Africa
Pachyballus mombasensis Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 – Kenya
Pachyballus ornatus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020 – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania
Pachyballus transversus Simon, 1900 (type) – Guinea-Bissau, Congo, Zanzibar, South Africa
Pachyballus variegatus Lessert, 1925 – Tanzania

^ ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Pachyballus Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 22.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
^ Simon, E. (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 44: 381–407.

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