''Emathis weyersi'' is a
species of
jumping spider that occurs from
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
to the
Philippines.
Description
The orange
carapace
A carapace is a Dorsum (biology), dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises. In turtles and tor ...
of the female is fairly high with a flat head part. The whitish-yellow
abdomen is oval and longish, with grey sides and some grey spots in the middle, the whitish-yellow legs are slender and spiny, with orange and drown hairs. The first pair of legs is more robust. The eye field is yellow, with the median frontal eyes surrounded orange and the others black.
[Murphy & Murphy 2000: 284]
Footnotes
References
* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. ''Malaysian Nature Society'', Kuala Lumpur.
* (2007)
The world spider catalog version 8.0. ''American Museum of Natural History''.
External links
* Salticidae.org
Salticidae
Arthropods of the Philippines
Spiders of Asia
Spiders described in 1899
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