Neon (spider)

Neon is a spider 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 Gertsch & Ivie, 1955 — USA
• Neon caboverdensis Schmidt & Krause, 1998 — Cape Verde Islands
• Neon convolutus Denis, 1937 — France, Azores, Algeria
• Neon ellamae Gertsch & Ivie, 1955 — USA
• Neon kiyotoi Ikeda, 1995 — Japan
• Neon kovblyuki Logunov, 2004 — Ukraine
• Neon levis (Simon, 1871) — Palearctic
• Neon minutus Zabka, 1985 — Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan
• Neon muticus (Simon, 1871) — Corsica
• Neon nelli Peckham & Peckham, 1888 — USA, Canada
• Neon nigriceps Bryant, 1940 — Cuba
• Neon ningyo Ikeda, 1995 — China, Japan
• Neon nojimai Ikeda, 1995 — Japan
• Neon pictus Kulczynski, 1891 — Southeastern Europe to Central Asia
• Neon pixii Gertsch & Ivie, 1955 — USA
• Neon plutonus Gertsch & Ivie, 1955 — USA
• Neon punctulatus Karsch, 1880 — Bolivia
• Neon rayi (Simon, 1875) — Southern, Central Europe to Kazakhstan
• Neon reticulatus (Blackwall, 1853) — Holarctic
• Neon robustus Lohmander, 1945 — Ireland, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Spain
• Neon sumatranus Logunov, 1998 — Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea
• Neon valentulus Falconer, 1912 — Europe to Central Asia
• Neon wangi Peng & Li, 2006 — China
• Neon zonatus Bao & Peng, 2002 — Taiwan

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

External sources

• Photograph of N. levis
• Picture of N. nellii
• 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. PDF - includes Neon zonatus