Análise cladística de Philodromidae thorell, 1870 (Arachnida: Araneae)

Abstract

This work is a cladistic study of Philodromidae Thorell, 1870 at genera level. The family currently have 549 species in 30 genera. Its distribution covers the temperate and tropical regions. Although many authors have studied the family and proposing a systematic classification, no cladistic analysis yet studied the internal relations of the family with a wide sampling of genres. This study aims to analyze the relationship between the genera of Philodromidae and test its monophyly. In the analysis were included 73 species, with representatives of 22 genera of the 30 total family genera and seven species from four families included as outgroups, which were respectively Salticidae, Thomisidae and Sparassidae with two species and representatives for rooting was selected one spiceie of Selenopidae. Where analyzed 130 characters somatic at 80 terminals via heuristic search with equal weighing of characters. The analysis resulted in 61 maximally parsimonious trees of 720 steps, with equal weights. The results at the two analyses have found thath the family is monophyletic. The analysis also indicated three groups of genres that are proposed in this study as subfamilies: Pedinopisthinae, Thanatinae and Philodrominae. Two subfamilies (Thanatinae and Philodrominae) partially match tribes previously proposed in other studies. Many of the diagnostic characters of the show are homoplásicos genres. Cleocnemis and Philodromus shown to be paraphyletic and some monotypic genera were sinonimizados. This result allowed the development of a dichotomous key to genus, which is accompanied by the diagnosis and illustrations of the genera and species used in cladistic analysis.