Spartaeus

Spartaeus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.[2] These spiders build large sheet webs on tree trunks to capture prey, mostly moths. When walking, they wave their palps and legs in an unusual way.[3]

Spartaeus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Spartaeinae
Genus: Spartaeus
Thorell, 1891[1]
Type species
S. spinimanus
(Thorell, 1878)
Species

19, see text

The genus was renamed from Boethus in 1984 because the name was found to be preoccupied.[1]

Species

As of August 2019 it contains nineteen species, found only in Asia:[1]

  • Spartaeus abramovi Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Vietnam
  • Spartaeus bani (Ikeda, 1995) – Japan
  • Spartaeus banthamus Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
  • Spartaeus ellipticus Bao & Peng, 2002 – Taiwan
  • Spartaeus emeishan Zhu, Yang & Zhang, 2007 – China
  • Spartaeus forcipiformis Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
  • Spartaeus jaegeri Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
  • Spartaeus jianfengensis Song & Chai, 1991 – China
  • Spartaeus noctivagus Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
  • Spartaeus pinniformis Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
  • Spartaeus platnicki Song, Chen & Gong, 1991 – China
  • Spartaeus serratus Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
  • Spartaeus spinimanus (Thorell, 1878) (type) – Sri Lanka to Indonesia (Borneo, Sumbawa)
  • Spartaeus tengchongensis Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
  • Spartaeus thailandicus Wanless, 1984 – China, Thailand
  • Spartaeus triapiculus Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
  • Spartaeus uplandicus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • Spartaeus wildtrackii Wanless, 1987 – Malaysia
  • Spartaeus zhangi Peng & Li, 2002 – China, Laos

References
  1. "Gen. Spartaeus Thorell, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. Thorell, T. (1891). "Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 24 (2): 1–149.
  3. "Web building and predatory behaviour of Spartaeus spinimanus and Spartaeus thailandicus, primitive jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from South-East Asia". Research Gate. Retrieved 4 June 2016.


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