# Nicylla

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
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| taxon = Nicylla sundevalli
| image = Thiania_bhamoensis.jpg
| image_caption = ''Nicylla sundevalli''
| authority = Thorell, 1890
| parent_authority = [Thorell](/source/Tamerlan_Thorell), 1890<ref name=NMBE />
| display_parents = 2
}}
'''''Nicylla''''' is a [monotypic](/source/monotypic_taxon) [genus](/source/genus) of Sumatran [jumping spiders](/source/Salticidae) containing the single species, '''''Nicylla sundevalli'''''. It was first described by [Tamerlan Thorell](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Circumscription_(taxonomy)) to include ''Nicylla'', is placed in the tribe Euophryini, part of the [Salticoida](/source/Salticoida) clade of the subfamily [Salticinae](/source/Salticinae).<ref name=Madd15/>

==References==
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<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>
}}

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

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