Epeus

Epeus
Male Epeus flavobilineatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Plexippinae
Genus: Epeus
Peckham & Peckham, 1886
Type species
Evenus tener
Simon, 1877
Species

see text

Diversity
13 species

Epeus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rain forest, or in gardens of Southeast Asia.[1]

The genus is similar to Plexippoides.[2]

Description

Females are 7–9 mm long, males 6–9 mm. They are long-legged with a long opisthosoma, and quite colorful. Males have a characteristic v-shaped crest of raised, long hairs on the head, resembling a Mohawk.[1]

E. glorius, described in 1985, has a pale orange carapace with a deep orange crest of hairs. The three rear eye pairs have black surrounds with white squamose hairs, the opisthosoma is pale yellow. The four frontal legs of the male are brown with yellowish tarsi at the end, the other four legs are light brown. The legs of the female are pale yellow with black tips.[1]

Distribution

Members of this genus are distributed throughout southern Asia.

Name

Epeus is a name from Greek mythology.

Species

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f
  2. Zhang et al. 2003

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