中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所机构知识库

A new jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) is described here based on a well-preserved male from the mid-Miocene Zhangpu biota of southeastern China. We tentatively assign it to an indeterminate position in the subfamily Salticinae. It represents the first salticid in Zhangpu amber and only the second salticid fossil from China. The new specimen may improve our knowledge of the distribution of these spiders over geological time. Bearing a similar habitus to some extant species living in southeast Asia, the Zhangpu inclusion is consistent with being a spider from a tropical rainforest environment in southeast China during middle Miocene; a hypothesis supported by other faunal records from the Zhangpu biota. (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. and Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS. All rights reserved.