Neon (genus) 5826481 206720246 2008-04-19T17:07:48Z Sarefo 381257 + pic {{Taxobox | name = ''Neon'' | image = Neon.valentulus.4.jpg | image_caption = ''Neon valentulus'' | image_width = 250px | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropoda]] | order = [[Spider|Araneae]] | familia = [[Salticidae]] | subfamilia = [[Euophryinae]] | tribus = [[Chalcoscirtini]] | genus = '''''Neon''''' | genus_authority = [[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1876 | diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Neon | diversity = 24 species | type_species = ''[[Neon reticulatus|Salticus reticulatus]]'' | type_species_authority = [[John Blackwall|Blackwall]], 1853 | range_map = | range_map_width = 250px | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = see text }} '''''Neon''''' is a [[spider]] [[genus (biology)|genus]] of the [[Salticidae]] family (jumping spiders). Its 24 described species occur mostly in [[Eurasia]], with some species found in North and South America. One species, ''N. convolutus'', is also found in [[Algeria]]. ==Species== * ''[[Neon avalonus]]'' <small>[[Willis J. Gertsch|Gertsch]] & [[Wilton Ivie|Ivie]], 1955</small> — [[USA]] * ''[[Neon caboverdensis]]'' <small>Schmidt & Krause, 1998</small> — [[Cape Verde Islands]] * ''[[Neon convolutus]]'' <small>Denis, 1937</small> — [[France]], [[Azores]], [[Algeria]] * ''[[Neon ellamae]]'' <small>Gertsch & Ivie, 1955</small> — USA * ''[[Neon kiyotoi]]'' <small>Ikeda, 1995</small> — [[Japan]] * ''[[Neon kovblyuki]]'' <small>Logunov, 2004</small> — [[Ukraine]] * ''[[Neon levis]]'' <small>(Simon, 1871)</small> — [[Palearctic]] * ''[[Neon minutus]]'' <small>Zabka, 1985</small> — [[Korea]], [[Vietnam]], [[Taiwan]], Japan * ''[[Neon muticus]]'' <small>(Simon, 1871)</small> — [[Corsica]] * ''[[Neon nelli]]'' <small>Peckham & Peckham, 1888</small> — USA, [[Canada]] * ''[[Neon nigriceps]]'' <small>Bryant, 1940</small> — [[Cuba]] * ''[[Neon ningyo]]'' <small>Ikeda, 1995</small> — [[China]], Japan * ''[[Neon nojimai]]'' <small>Ikeda, 1995</small> — Japan * ''[[Neon pictus]]'' <small>Kulczynski, 1891</small> — Southeastern [[Europe]] to [[Central Asia]] * ''[[Neon pixii]]'' <small>Gertsch & Ivie, 1955</small> — USA * ''[[Neon plutonus]]'' <small>Gertsch & Ivie, 1955</small> — USA * ''[[Neon punctulatus]]'' <small>[[Friedrich Karsch|Karsch]], 1880</small> — [[Bolivia]] * ''[[Neon rayi]]'' <small>(Simon, 1875)</small> — [[Southern Europe|Southern]], [[Central Europe]] to [[Kazakhstan]] * ''[[Neon reticulatus]]'' <small>(Blackwall, 1853)</small> — [[Holarctic]] * ''[[Neon robustus]]'' <small>Lohmander, 1945</small> — [[Ireland]], [[Great Britain]], [[Sweden]], [[Finland]], [[Germany]], [[Spain]] * ''[[Neon sumatranus]]'' <small>Logunov, 1998</small> — [[Malaysia]], [[Indonesia]], [[New Guinea]] * ''[[Neon valentulus]]'' <small>Falconer, 1912</small> — Europe to Central Asia * ''[[Neon wangi]]'' <small>Peng & Li, 2006</small> — China * ''[[Neon zonatus]]'' <small>Bao & Peng, 2002</small> — [[Taiwan]] ==References== * {{aut|Platnick, Norman I.}} (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog], version 8.5. ''American Museum of Natural History''. ==External sources== {{commons|Neon (spider)|Neon}} *[http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/neon/laev-kph.htm Photograph of ''N. levis''] * [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/neon/nelli-gb.htm Picture of ''N. nellii''] * {{aut|Bao, Y.-H. & Peng, X.-J.}} (2002). Six New Species of Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Hui-Sun Experimental Forest Station, Taiwan. ''Zoological Studies'' '''41'''(4): 403-411. [http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/41.4/403.pdf PDF] - includes ''Neon zonatus'' [[Category:Salticidae]] {{Salticidae-stub}}