- Cheliceroides
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Cheliceroides Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Subkingdom: Eumetazoa Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Section: Dionycha Superfamily: Salticoidea Family: Salticidae Genus: Cheliceroides
Zabka, 1985Species: C. longipalpis Binomial name Cheliceroides longipalpis
Zabka, 1985Diversity 1 species Cheliceroides is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Its single described species is found in China and Vietnam.
The species was described from a single male collected from calcareous rocks in rain forest in Vietnam.[1]. However, females have also been found and described[2].
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Description
The described male is about 9 mm long. The chelicerae are very long with odd outgrowths, the legs quite spiny with a more robust and longer frontal pair. The carapace is brown posteriorly, with a chestnut brown eyefield, which is orange red at the edges and fringed with orange and white, squamose hairs. The opisthosoma features a broad brown median stripe with several yellow spots. On the front end of the stripe there are white hairs, elsewhere it is fringed in grey-brown. The legs are brown, except for parts of the last two pairs, which are orange or yellow.[1]
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References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
- Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings
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