Pharacocerus

Pharacocerus is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[2] Males are about 4 to 6 millimetres (0.16 to 0.24 in) long, and they are likely related to Plexippus.[3]

Pharacocerus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pharacocerus
Simon, 1902[1]
Type species
P. sessor
Simon, 1902
Species

7, see text

Species

As of August 2019 it contains seven species and two subspecies, found only in Africa:[1]

  • Pharacocerus castaneiceps Simon, 1910 – Guinea-Bissau
  • Pharacocerus ebenauensis Strand, 1908 – Madagascar
  • Pharacocerus ephippiatus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon
  • Pharacocerus fagei Berland & Millot, 1941 – Ivory Coast
    • Pharacocerus f. soudanensis Berland & Millot, 1941 – Mali
    • Pharacocerus f. verdieri Berland & Millot, 1941 – Guinea
  • Pharacocerus rubrocomatus Simon, 1910 – Congo
  • Pharacocerus sessor Simon, 1902 (type) – Madagascar
  • Pharacocerus xanthopogon Simon, 1903 – Equatorial Guinea

References
  1. "Gen. Pharacocerus Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
  2. Simon, E. (1902). "Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 71: 389–421.
  3. Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society.


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