- Piranthus
Taxobox
name = "Piranthus"
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropoda
classis =Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia =Salticidae
subfamilia =Hisponinae
genus = "Piranthus"
genus_authority = Thorell, 1895
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Piranthus
diversity = 2 species
type_species = "Piranthus decorus "
type_species_authority = Thorell, 1895
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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text"Piranthus" is a
spider genus of theSalticidae family (jumping spiders).Simon compares this genus with "Padilla"Murphy & Murphy 2000: 286] .
Description
The female "P. decorus" is about 9 mm long. The spider is mostly black, with some white pubescence on the sides of the cephalorthorax, and a dark median stripe in the middle of a wide light median band on the longish abdomen. The female palps are yellowish white. The legs are very short, with the first pair much more robust. They are reddish-brown with black rings.
pecies
* "
Piranthus casteti " Simon, 1900 —India
* "Piranthus decorus " Thorell, 1895 —Burma 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".
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