Epeus (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Epeus"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Plexippinae
tribus = Viciriini
genus = "Epeus"
genus_authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1886
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Epeus
diversity = 13 species
type_species = "Evenus tener"
type_species_authority = Simon, 1877
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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

"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 AsiaMurphy & Murphy 2000: 298f] .

The genus is similar to "Plexippoides"Zhang "et al." 2003] .

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.

"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.

Distribution

Members of this genus are distributed throughout southern Asia.

Name

Epeus is a name from Greek mythology.

pecies

* "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

* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. "Malaysian Nature Society", Kuala Lumpur.
* (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. [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/51/51rbz187-195.pdf PDF] ("E. furcatus")
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".

External links

* Salticidae.org: [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/epeus/epeus.htm Diagnostic drawings and color photgraphs]