Harmochirus
Harmochirus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).[1]
Harmochirus | |
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H. insulanus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Harmochirus Simon, 1885[1] |
Type species | |
Ballus brachiatus | |
Species | |
See text. | |
Diversity | |
10 species |
This small genus is very close to Bianor; it seems to replace it where Bianor itself is missing, especially in rainforest habitats.[2]
Species
As of March 2017, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]
- Harmochirus ahmedi Biswas, 2016 – Bangladesh
- Harmochirus bianoriformis (Strand, 1907) – Central and East Africa, Madagascar
- Harmochirus brachiatus (Thorell, 1877) (type species) – India, Bhutan to Taiwan, Indonesia
- Harmochirus duboscqi (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Ivory Coast, Senegal
- Harmochirus exaggeratus Caleb & Mathai, 2015 – India
- Harmochirus insulanus (Kishida, 1914) – China, Korea, Japan
- Harmochirus lloydi Narayan, 1915 – India
- Harmochirus luculentus Simon, 1886 – Africa, Zanzibar, Yemen
- Harmochirus pineus Xiao & Wang, 2005 – China
- Harmochirus zabkai Logunov, 2001 – India, Nepal, Vietnam
References
- "Gen. Harmochirus Simon, 1885". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. ISBN 978-983-9681-17-8.
Further reading
- Logunov D.V. (2001). "A redefinition of the genera Bianor Peckham & Peckham, 1885 and Harmochirus Simon, 1885, with the establishment of a new genus Sibianor gen. n. (Araneae: Salticidae)". Arthropoda Selecta 9(4): 221-286.
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