Heratemita

Heratemita
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Marpissinae
Genus: Heratemita
Strand, 1932
Type species
Heratemis chrysozona
Simon, 1899
Species

see text

Diversity
2 species

Heratemita is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

Description

Females are about 8 mm long, males 5 to 7 mm. The black carapace is wider than long, very rugose and covered with sparse violet squamose hairs. There are four large white patches near the posterior eyes. The abdomen is elongate and also sparsely covered with violet hairs, with three white longitudinal stripes. The legs are slender and black with yellow-gold marks, except for the very robust frontal pair, which are black with yellow tarsi and metatarsi. The large male chelicerae run parallel and then suddenly diverge at right angles.[1]

Species

Footnotes

  1. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 284

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