Eupoa prima
Eupoa prima is a species of jumping spider from Vietnam. Described in 1985, it was for some time the only described species in the genus Eupoa; however, since 1997 six new species have been reported.[1]
| Eupoa prima | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Eupoa |
| Species: | E. prima |
| Binomial name | |
| Eupoa prima Żabka, 1985 | |
Description
Both sexes are one to two millimeters long. The carapace is grey-brown, lighter in the middle, and the eyes are surrounded black. The male opisthosoma is black-brown with small elongate light transverse patches, the female grey-brown with much larger patches. The legs are yellowish-grey. It resembles the not closely related Neon.[2]
Footnotes
- Platnick 2007
- Murphy & Murphy 2000: 292
References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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