Padillothorax flavopunctus (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018) Maddison & Beattie & Marathe & Ng & Kanesharatnam & Benjamin & Kunte, 2020

Maddison, Wayne P., Beattie, Imara, Marathe, Kiran, Ng, Paul Y. C., Kanesharatnam, Nilani, Benjamin, Suresh P. & Kunte, Krushnamegh, 2020, A phylogenetic and taxonomic review of baviine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Baviini), ZooKeys 1004, pp. 27-97 : 27

Padillothorax flavopunctus (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018) comb. nov.

Bavirecta flavopuncta Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018: 4-8. figs 1-3.

Notes.

This species shares the diagnostic features of the genus, including macrosetae on the middle of the front face of the first femur. P. flavopunctus has two such macrosetae on each femur, as in P. badut and P. mulu , but larger and placed even more proximally. We have concerns that the paratype female (IFS_SAL_679) is not conspecific with the male holotype, but if not conspecific, it is a closely related species, both by its strong morphological similarity (body form, markings) to the male and by its molecular proximity to a juvenile (IFS_SAL_1017) collected alongside the male at the type locality.