Spartaeus
Appearance
Spartaeus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Spartaeinae |
Genus: | Spartaeus Thorell, 1891[1] |
Type species | |
S. spinimanus (Thorell, 1878)
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Species | |
19, see text |
Spartaeus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.[2] These spiders build large sheet webs on tree trunks to capture prey, mostly moths. When walking, they wave their palps and legs in an unusual way.[3]
The genus was renamed from Boethus in 1984 because the name was found to be preoccupied.[1]
Species
[edit]As of August 2019[update] it contains nineteen species, found only in Asia:[1]
- Spartaeus abramovi Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Vietnam
- Spartaeus bani (Ikeda, 1995) – Japan
- Spartaeus banthamus Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
- Spartaeus ellipticus Bao & Peng, 2002 – Taiwan
- Spartaeus emeishan Zhu, Yang & Zhang, 2007 – China
- Spartaeus forcipiformis Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
- Spartaeus jaegeri Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
- Spartaeus jianfengensis Song & Chai, 1991 – China
- Spartaeus noctivagus Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
- Spartaeus pinniformis Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
- Spartaeus platnicki Song, Chen & Gong, 1991 – China
- Spartaeus serratus Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
- Spartaeus spinimanus (Thorell, 1878) (type) – Sri Lanka to Indonesia (Borneo, Sumbawa)
- Spartaeus tengchongensis Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
- Spartaeus thailandicus Wanless, 1984 – China, Thailand
- Spartaeus triapiculus Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
- Spartaeus uplandicus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- Spartaeus wildtrackii Wanless, 1987 – Malaysia
- Spartaeus zhangi Peng & Li, 2002 – China, Laos
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Gen. Spartaeus Thorell, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1891). "Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 24 (2): 1–149.
- ^ "Web building and predatory behaviour of Spartaeus spinimanus and Spartaeus thailandicus, primitive jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from South-East Asia". Research Gate. Retrieved 4 June 2016.