Bristowia
| Bristowia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Section: | Dionycha |
| Superfamily: | Salticoidea |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Agoriinae |
| Genus: | Bristowia Reimoser, 1934 |
| Species | |
|
see text | |
| Diversity | |
| 2 species | |
Bristowia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders) with two species. One is found in Africa, the other is Asia.
B. heterospinosa is about 3 to 4 mm long in both sexes.[1]
Name
The genus is named after naturalist and arachnologist W. S. Bristowe.
Species
- Bristowia afra Szűts, 2004 — Congo basin
- Bristowia heterospinosa Reimoser, 1934 — India, China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Krakatau
Footnotes
- ↑ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 290
References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Szűts, T. (2004): A revision of the genus Bristowia (Araneae: Salticidae). Folia entomologica hungarica 65: 25-31. PDF
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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