''Bristowia'' is a
genus of
spiders in the jumping spider family,
Salticidae, found in
Africa and
Asia.
[
''B. heterospinosa'' is about 3 to 4 mm long in both sexes.][
]
Name
The genus is named after naturalist and arachnologist W. S. Bristowe
William Syer Bristowe (1 September 1901 – 11 September 1979), who wrote under the name W. S. Bristowe, was an English naturalist, a prolific and popular scientific writer and authority on spiders. He was educated at Wellington College and Cambr ...
.
Species
, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[
* '' Bristowia afra'' Szűts, 2004 — ]Congo basin
The Congo Basin (french: Bassin du Congo) is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River. The Congo Basin is located in Central Africa, in a region known as west equatorial Africa. The Congo Basin region is sometimes known simply as the Congo. It con ...
* '' Bristowia gandhii'' Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2016 — Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
* ''Bristowia heterospinosa
''Bristowia heterospinosa'' is a species of jumping spider from Asia. It was first found on Krakatau,Murphy & Murphy 2000: 290 but later also in Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Korea and Japan.Platnick 2007
Although it was the only species ...
'' Reimoser, 1934 — India, China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
, Korea, Vietnam, Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
, Krakatau
References
Bibliography
* Szűts, T. (2004). "A revision of the genus ''Bristowia'' (Araneae: Salticidae)". ''Folia entomologica hungarica'' 65: 25-31
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Salticidae genera
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of Africa
Salticidae
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