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
- Epeus alboguttatus (Thorell, 1887) — China, Myanmar, Vietnam
- Epeus albus Prószyński, 1992 — India
- Epeus bicuspidatus (Song, Gu & Chen, 1988) — China
- Epeus chilapataensis (Biswas & Biswas, 1992) — India
- Epeus edwardsi Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
- Epeus flavobilineatus (Doleschall, 1859) — Java
- Epeus furcatus Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 — Singapore
- Epeus glorius Zabka, 1985 — China, Vietnam
- Epeus guangxi Peng & Li, 2002 — China
- Epeus hawigalboguttatus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
- Epeus indicus Prószyński, 1992 — India
- Epeus mirus (Peckham & Peckham, 1907) — Borneo
- Epeus tener (Simon, 1877) — Java
Footnotes
References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Zhang, J.X.; Song, D.X. & Li, D. (2003): Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51(2):187-195. PDF (E. furcatus)
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.