title: Phylogenetic placement of the unusual jumping spider Depreissia Lessert, and a new synapomorphy uniting Hisponinae and Salticinae (Araneae, Salticidae).
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.
authors: Beaty Biodiversity Museum and Departments of Botany and Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z4 Canada.
authors: Wayne P
authors: WP
authors: Maddison
authors: Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
authors: David R
authors: DR
authors: Maddison
authors: Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
authors: Junxia
authors: J
authors: Zhang
authors: 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.
authors: Tamás
authors: T
authors: Szűts
keywords: Cocalodini; Jumping spiders; Salticidae; phylogeny; systematics