Scientific name Soesiladeepakius aschnae | Subkingdom Eumetazoa Order Araneae Rank Genus | |
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Soesiladeepakius is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
Contents
The type species S. aschnae is only known from male specimens. These are 2.4 mm long, with a brown carapace.
Validity
The genus describer Dewanand Makhan publishes in the Australian journal "Calodema", whose editor seems to have no quality standards whatsoever, while comparing scientists in general with Hitler and Stalin. While Makhan's work on ants and beetles is substandard (describing existing species without knowledge of the fundamental literature), Soesiladeepakius seems to have been accepted by the arachnologist community, with six species having been added by Ruiz & Maddison in 2012.
Name
The genus is a combination of the given names Soesila and Deepak, the wife and son of the describer. The species is named after the describers daughter Aschna.