Telamonia

Telamonia
Female Telamonia dimidiata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Euarthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Telamonia
Thorell, 1887[1]
Type species
Telamonia festiva
Thorell, 1887[1]
Species

See text.

Diversity
45 species

Telamonia is a genus of spiders in the Salticidae family (jumping spiders), found in rain forest,[2] mostly in Asia and parts of Africa.

Description

Telamonia is a colorful genus, with a slender opisthosoma and long legs. The color patterns vary considerably between sexes and species. Two longitudinal stripes along the abdomen are common, and the carapace is often colored.

Species

male T. vlijmi
male T. hasselti

As of February 2017, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Telamonia agapeta (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
  • Telamonia annulipes Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo
  • Telamonia besanconi (Berland & Millot, 1941) — Guinea, Nigeria
  • Telamonia bombycina (Simon, 1902) — Borneo
  • Telamonia borreyi Berland & Millot, 1941 — Mali
  • Telamonia caprina (Simon, 1903) — China, Vietnam
  • Telamonia coeruleostriata (Doleschall, 1859) — Amboina
  • Telamonia comosissima (Simon, 1886) — Congo
  • Telamonia cristata Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Philippines
  • Telamonia dimidiata (Simon, 1899) — India, Bhutan, Sumatra
  • Telamonia dissimilis Próchniewicz, 1990 — Bhutan
  • Telamonia elegans (Thorell, 1887) — Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia
  • Telamonia festiva Thorell, 1887 (type species) — Myanmar to Java
  • Telamonia formosa (Simon, 1902) — Java
  • Telamonia fuscimana (Simon, 1903) — West Africa
  • Telamonia hasselti (Thorell, 1878) — Myanmar to Sulawesi
  • Telamonia jolensis (Simon, 1902) — Philippines
  • Telamonia laecta Próchniewicz, 1990 — Bhutan
  • Telamonia latruncula (Thorell, 1877) — Sulawesi
  • Telamonia leopoldi Roewer, 1938 — New Guinea
  • Telamonia livida (Karsch, 1880) — Philippines
  • Telamonia longiuscula (Thorell, 1899) — Cameroon
  • Telamonia luteocincta (Thorell, 1891) — Malaysia
  • Telamonia luxiensis Peng, Yin, Yan & Kim, 1998 – China
  • Telamonia mandibulata Hogg, 1915 — New Guinea
  • Telamonia masinloc Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
  • Telamonia mundula (Thorell, 1877) — Sulawesi
  • Telamonia mustelina Simon, 1901 — Hong Kong
  • Telamonia parangfestiva Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
  • Telamonia peckhami Thorell, 1891 — Nicobar Islands
  • Telamonia prima Próchniewicz, 1990 — Bhutan
  • Telamonia resplendens Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo
  • Telamonia scalaris (Thorell, 1881) — Moluccas
  • Telamonia setosa (Karsch, 1880) — Philippines
  • Telamonia shepardi Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 – China
  • Telamonia sponsa (Simon, 1902) — Sri Lanka
  • Telamonia thoracica (Thorell, 1899) — Cameroon
  • Telamonia trabifera (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
  • Telamonia trinotata Simon, 1903 — Equatorial Guinea
  • Telamonia trochilus (Doleschall, 1859) — Java
  • Telamonia vidua Hogg, 1915 — New Guinea
  • Telamonia virgata Simon, 1903 — Gabon
  • Telamonia vlijmi Prószynski, 1984 — China, Korea, Japan

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Telamonia Thorell, 1887". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-02-27.
  2. ↑ Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
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