Biology:Harmochirus

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Short description: Genus of spiders


Harmochirus
Harmochirus insulanus.crop.jpg
H. insulanus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
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
Thorell, 1877[1]
Species

See text.

Diversity
10 species

Harmochirus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).[1]

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

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Gen. Harmochirus Simon, 1885". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2678. 
  2. 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.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1538404 entry