Palpelius
| Palpelius | |
|---|---|
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Section: | Dionycha |
| Superfamily: | Salticoidea |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Euophryinae |
| Genus: | Palpelius Simon, 1903 |
| Type species | |
| Plexippus beccarii Thorell, 1881 | |
| Species | |
|
see text | |
| Diversity | |
| 11 species | |
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.[1]
Species
- 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
- ↑ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 277
References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.