Nicylla

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Nicylla sundevalli | image = Thiania_bhamoensis.jpg | image_caption = ''Nicylla sundevalli'' | authority = Thorell, 1890 | parent_authority = Thorell, 1890<ref name=NMBE /> | display_parents = 2 }} '''''Nicylla''''' is a monotypic genus of Sumatran jumping spiders containing the single species, '''''Nicylla sundevalli'''''. It was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1890,<ref name=Thor1890>{{cite journal| last=Thorell| first=T.| year=1890| title=Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum| journal=Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova| pages=132–172| volume=30| author-link=Tamerlan_Thorell}}</ref> and is only found on Sumatra.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Nicylla Thorell, 1890| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-08-06| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2816| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> Briefly considered a synonym of ''Thiania'',<ref name=Zhan2015>{{cite journal| last1=Zhang| first1=J. X.| last2=Maddison| first2=W. P.| year=2015| title=Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny| journal=Zootaxa| volume=3938| issue=1| page=32| author-link2=Wayne_Maddison| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1| pmid=25947489}}</ref> it was elevated back to genus status in 2017.<ref name=Pros2017>{{cite journal| last=Prószyński| first=J.| year=2017| title=Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)| journal=Ecologica Montenegrina| volume=12| page=77| doi=10.37828/em.2017.12.1| author-link=Jerzy_Prószyński| url=https://www.biotaxa.org/em/article/view/33084| doi-access=free}}</ref>

''Thiania'', circumscribed to include ''Nicylla'', is placed in the tribe Euophryini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.<ref name=Madd15/>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Madd15>{{Citation |mode=cs1 |last1=Maddison |first1=Wayne P. |title=A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) |journal=Journal of Arachnology |date=2015 |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=231–292 |doi=10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292|s2cid=85680279 }}</ref> }}

Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera Category:Salticidae Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Spiders of Hawaii Category:Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell