Epeus

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Genus of spiders

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::summary Genus of spiders ::

| image = GBohne Epeus flavobilineatus.jpg | image_caption = Male Epeus flavobilineatus | taxon = Epeus | authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1886 | type_species = Evenus tener | type_species_authority = Simon, 1877 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Epeus_flavobilineatus.jpg" caption="Male ''[[Epeus flavobilineatus]]''"] ::

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.

The genus is similar to Plexippoides.

Description

Like most spiders, they exhibit sexual dimorphism. 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.

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.

Distribution

Members of this genus are distributed throughout southern Asia.

Name

The generic name is derived from Epeius of Greek mythology.

Species

, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following species:

Footnotes

References

  • Murphy, F. & Murphy, J. (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)

References

  1. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f
  2. Zhang ''et al.'' 2003
  3. Chen, 2013
  4. "Gen. ''Epeus'' Peckham & Peckham, 1886". Natural History Museum Bern.

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