Palpelius

Taxobox
name = "Palpelius"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Euophryinae
tribus = Euophryini
genus = "Palpelius"
genus_authority = Simon, 1903
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Palpelius
diversity = 11 species
type_species = "Plexippus beccarii"
type_species_authority = Thorell, 1881
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subdivision_ranks = Species
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"Palpelius" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its eleven described species are scattered on islands in the Pacific Ocean, roughly from Borneo to New Guinea, with two species found in Australia.

Description

Females in this genus are about seven millimeters long, males range from 6 to 10. The cephalothorax is large and high, falling away steeply just behind the rear eyes. The general color is red-brown, with various white patterns on the sides and on the center of the thorax. The abdomen is pale, sometimes with transverse dark bands near the middle and chevrons near the spinnerets. The legs are brown, with the two front pairs stouter and darker, and carrying black fringes below patellae and tibiae. [Murphy & Murphy 2000: 277]

pecies

* "Palpelius albofasciatus" Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo
* "Palpelius arboreus" Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo
* "Palpelius beccarii" (Thorell, 1881) — Moluccas to Australia
* "Palpelius clarus" Roewer, 1938 — New Guinea
* "Palpelius dearmatus" (Thorell, 1881) — Queensland
* "Palpelius discedens" Kulczyński, 1910 — Bismarck Archipelago
* "Palpelius fuscoannulatus" (Strand, 1911) — Aru Islands
* "Palpelius kuekenthali" (Pocock, 1897) — Moluccas
* "Palpelius namosi" Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1996 — Fiji
* "Palpelius nemoralis" Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo
* "Palpelius trigyrus" Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1996 — Caroline Islands

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".