Icius is a genus of jumping spiders described by Eugène Simon in 1876, belonging to the Order Araneae, Family Salticidae.[1]
Distribution
Icius is an almost cosmopolitan genus, widespread in Europe (mainly in Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Poland, Romania, Portugal, southern Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Spain and in The Netherlands), as well in Asia, Africa and in Central and South America (one species, Icius pallidulus is endemic of Micronesia).[2]
Species
As of November 2021, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:[1]
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Icius abnormis Denis, 1958 – Afghanistan
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Icius alboterminus (Caleb, 2014) – India, Nepal
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Icius bamboo Cao & Li, 2016 – China
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Icius bilobus Yang & Tang, 1996 – China
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Icius brunellii Caporiacco, 1940 – Ethiopia
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Icius cervinus Simon, 1878 – Russia
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Icius congener Simon, 1871 – Western Mediterranean
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Icius crassipes Simon, 1868 – Spain, Algeria, Tunisia
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Icius dendryphantoides Strand, 1909 – South Africa
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Icius desertorum Simon, 1901 – South Africa
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Icius fagei (Lessert, 1925) – Tanzania
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Icius glaucochirus (Thorell, 1890) – Sumatra
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Icius grassei (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Malawi, Nigeria, DR Congo, Kenya
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Icius hamatus (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Palearctic
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Icius ildefonsus Chamberlin, 1924 – Mexico
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Icius ildefonsus Chamberlin, 1924 – Mexico
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Icius inhonestus Keyserling, 1878 – Uruguay
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Icius insolidus (Wesołowska, 1999) – Nigeria, southern Africa
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Icius insolitus Alicata & Cantarella, 1994 – Algeria
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Icius kumariae Caleb, 2017 – India
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Icius lamellatus Wunderlich, 2011 – Portugal, Italy
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Icius mbitaensis Wesołowska, 2011 – Kenya
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Icius minimus Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
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Icius niger Peelle & Saito, 1933 – Kuril Islands
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Icius nigricaudus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009 – South Africa
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Icius ocellatus Pavesi, 1883 – East Africa
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Icius olokomei Wesołowska & A. Russell-Smith, 2011 – Nigeria
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Icius pallidulus Nakatsudi, 1943 – Micronesia
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Icius peculiaris Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
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Icius pulchellus Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011 – South Africa
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Icius separatus Banks, 1903 – Hispaniola
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Icius simoni Alicata & Cantarella, 1994 – Algeria
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Icius steeleae Logunov, 2004 – Sudan, Kenya, Uganda
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Icius subinermis Simon, 1937 – Mediterranean, Germany, Hungary, Romania. Introduced to USA
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Icius testaceolineatus (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
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Icius tukarami Prajapati, Kumbhar, Caleb, Sanap & Kamboj, 2021 – India
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Icius vikrambatrai Prajapati, Malamel, Sudhikumar & Sebastian, 2018 – India
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Icius yadongensis Hu, 2001 – China
References
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^ a b World Spider Catalog (2021). "Gen. Icius Simon, 1876". World Spider Catalog. 22.5. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
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^ Proszynski, Jerzy (2005). "Gen. Icius Simon, 1876". Catalogue of Salticidae (Araneae): Synthesis of Quotations in the World Literature since 1758. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- Simon, 1876 - Les arachnides de France, Paris, vol.3, p. 1-364
