Harmochirus

Taxobox
name = "Harmochirus"


image_caption = "H. insulanus"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
genus = "Harmochirus"
genus_authority = Simon, 1885
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Harmochirus
diversity = 9 species
type_species = "Ballus brachiatus"
type_species_authority = Thorell, 1877
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range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

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

This small genus is very close to "Bianor"; it seems to replace it where "Bianor" itself is missing, especially in rainforest habitats. [Murphy & Murphy 2000]

pecies

* "Harmochirus bianoriformis" (Strand, 1907) — Central, East Africa, Madagascar
* "Harmochirus brachiatus" (Thorell, 1877) — India, Bhutan to Taiwan, Indonesia
* "Harmochirus duboscqi" (Berland & Millot, 1941) — Ivory Coast, Senegal
* "Harmochirus insulanus" (Kishida, 1914) — China, Korea, Japan
* "Harmochirus lloydi" Narayan, 1915 — India
* "Harmochirus luculentus" Simon, 1885 — Central, East, Southern Africa, Zanzibar
* "Harmochirus pineus" Xiao & Wang, 2005 — China
* "Harmochirus proszynski" Zhu & Song, 2001 — China
* "Harmochirus zabkai" Logunov, 2001 — India, Nepal, Vietnam

Footnotes

References

* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. "Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur"
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".

Further reading

* (2001): A redefinition of the genera "Bianor" Peckham & Peckham, 1885 and "Harmochirus" Simon, 1885, with the establishment of a new genus "Sibianor" gen. n. (Araneae: Salticidae). "Arthropoda Selecta" 9(4): 221-286.

External links

* [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/harmochi/brac-jph.htm Photograph of "H. luculentus"]