Heratemita

Taxobox
name = "Heratemita"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Marpissinae
tribus = Simaethini
genus = "Heratemita"
genus_authority = Strand, 1932
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Heratemita
diversity = 2 species
type_species = "Heratemis chrysozona"
type_species_authority = Simon, 1899
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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

"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. [Murphy & Murphy 2000: 284]

pecies

* "Heratemita alboplagiata" (Simon, 1899) — Philippines
* "Heratemita chrysozona" (Simon, 1899) — Sumatra

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".

External links

* [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/heratem/herat-ph.htm Photograph of "Heratemita" sp.]