Epeus

Epeus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rain forest, or in gardens of Southeast Asia.[1]

Epeus
Male Epeus flavobilineatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Epeus
Peckham & Peckham, 1886
Type species
Evenus tener
Simon, 1877
Species

See text.

Male Epeus flavobilineatus

The genus is similar to Plexippoides.[2]

Description

Females are 7–9 mm long, males 6–9 mm. They are long-legged with a long opisthosoma, and quite colorful. Males have a characteristic v-shaped crest of raised, long hairs on the head, resembling a mohawk.[1]

E. glorius, described in 1985, has a pale orange carapace with a deep orange crest of hairs. The three rear eye pairs have black surrounds with white squamose hairs, the opisthosoma is pale yellow. The four frontal legs of the male are brown with yellowish tarsi at the end, the other four legs are light brown. The legs of the female are pale yellow with black tips.[1]

Distribution

Members of this genus are distributed throughout southern Asia.

Name

Epeus is a name from Greek mythology.

Species
  • Epeus alboguttatus (Thorell, 1887) – China, Myanmar, Vietnam
  • Epeus albus Prószyński, 1992 – India
  • Epeus bicuspidatus (Song, Gu & Chen, 1988) – China
  • Epeus chilapataensis (Biswas & Biswas, 1992) – India
  • Epeus edwardsi Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • Epeus flavobilineatus (Doleschall, 1859) – Java
  • Epeus furcatus Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 – Singapore
  • Epeus glorius Zabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam
  • Epeus guangxi Peng & Li, 2002 – China
  • Epeus hawigalboguttatus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • Epeus indicus Prószyński, 1992 – India
  • Epeus mirus (Peckham & Peckham, 1907) – Borneo
  • Epeus tener (Simon, 1877) – Java

Footnotes
  1. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f
  2. Zhang et al. 2003

References
  • Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Zhang, J.X.; Song, D.X. & Li, D. (2003): Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51(2):187-195. PDF (E. furcatus)
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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