{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Platypsecas razzabonii | authority = Caporiacco, 1955 | parent_authority = Caporiacco, 1955<ref name=NMBE /> }} '''''Platypsecas''''' is a monotypic genus of Venezuelan jumping spiders containing the single species, '''''Platypsecas razzabonii'''''. It was first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1955,<ref name=Capo1955>{{cite journal| last=Caporiacco| first=L. di| year=1955| title=Estudios sobre los aracnidos de Venezuela. 2a parte: Araneae| journal=Acta Biologica Venezuelica| pages=419–421| volume=1| author-link=Lodovico di Caporiacco}}</ref> and is only found in Venezuela.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Platypsecas Caporiacco, 1955| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-09-11| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2893| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> The type locality is El Junquito in the Capital District.<ref name=Capo1955/> Gustavo R. S. Ruiz and Antonio D. Brescovit though the genus was "possibly in Euophryinae";<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ruiz |first1=Gustavo R. S. |last2=Brescovit |first2=Antonio D. |title=Notes on the Venezuelan Jumping spiders described by Caporlacco (Araneae, Salticidae) |journal=Revista Brasileira de Zoologia |date=2005 |volume=22 |issue=3 |page=756|doi=10.1590/S0101-81752005000300036 }}</ref> Wayne P. Maddison followed their "tentative suggestion" and classified the genus in the tribe Euophryini within the clade Saltafresia and subfamily Salticinae.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Maddison |first1=Wayne P. |title=A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) |journal=The Journal of Arachnology |date=2015 |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=248, 279 |doi=10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292}}</ref>
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Category:Invertebrates of Venezuela Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera Category:Salticidae Category:Spiders of South America
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