''Epeus'' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae ( jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rain forest, or in gardens of Southeast Asia.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f The genus is similar to ''

Plexippoides ''Plexippoides'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Jerzy Prószyński in 1984. The name means "having the likeness of ''Plexippus''" Species it contains twenty-six species, found in eastern Asia, though some are recorded ...

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Description

Females are 7–9 mm long, males 6–9 mm. They are long-legged with a long opisthosoma, and quite colorful. Males have a characteristic v-shaped crest of raised, long hairs on the head, resembling a mohawk. ''E. glorius'', described in 1985, has a pale orange carapace with a deep orange crest of hairs. The three rear eye pairs have black surrounds with white squamose hairs, the opisthosoma is pale yellow. The four frontal legs of the male are brown with yellowish tarsi at the end, the other four legs are light brown. The legs of the female are pale yellow with black tips.

Distribution

Members of this genus are distributed throughout southern Asia.

Name

The generic name is derived from Epeius of Greek mythology.

Species

, the World Spider Catalog accepts the following species: * ''

Epeus alboguttatus ''Epeus'' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae ( jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rain forest, or in gardens of Southeast Asia.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f The genus is similar to '' Plexippoides ...

'' ( Thorell, 1887) –

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Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

, Vietnam * ''

Epeus albus ''Epeus'' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae ( jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rain forest, or in gardens of Southeast Asia.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f The genus is similar to '' Plexippoides ...

'' Prószyński, 1992 – India * ''

Epeus bicuspidatus ''Epeus'' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae ( jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rain forest, or in gardens of Southeast Asia.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f The genus is similar to '' Plexippoides ...

'' (Song, Gu & Chen, 1988) – China, TaiwanChen, 2013 * ''

Epeus chilapataensis ''Epeus'' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae ( jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rain forest, or in gardens of Southeast Asia.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f The genus is similar to '' Plexippoides ...

'' (Biswas & Biswas, 1992) – India * ''

Epeus daiqini ''Epeus'' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae ( jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rain forest, or in gardens of Southeast Asia.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f The genus is similar to '' Plexippoides ...

'' Patoleta, Gardzińska & Żabka, 2020 – Thailand * ''

Epeus edwardsi ''Epeus'' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae ( jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rain forest, or in gardens of Southeast Asia.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f The genus is similar to '' Plexippoides ...

'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines * '' Epeus exdomus'' Jastrzebski, 2010 – Nepal * ''

Epeus flavobilineatus ''Epeus'' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rain forest, or in gardens of Southeast Asia.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f The genus is similar to ''Plexippoides''.Z ...

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Doleschall Carl Ludwig Doleschall ( hu, Doleschall Lajos; sk, Karol Ľudovít Doležal; born 15 July 1827 – died 26 February 1859) was born in Vág-Újhely, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia), as the son of the theolo ...

, 1859) – Java * '' Epeus furcatus'' Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 – Singapore * '' Epeus glorius'' Zabka, 1985 – China, Taiwan, Vietnam * '' Epeus guangxi'' Peng & Li, 2002 – China, Taiwan * '' Epeus hawigalboguttatus'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines * '' Epeus indicus'' Prószyński, 1992 – India * '' Epeus mirus'' (Peckham & Peckham, 1907) – Borneo * '' Epeus pallidus'' Patoleta, Gardzińska & Żabka, 2020 – Thailand * '' Epeus sumatranus'' Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012 –

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 ...

* '' Epeus szirakii'' Patoleta, Gardzińska & Żabka, 2020 – Thailand * ''

Epeus tener ''Epeus'' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae ( jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rain forest, or in gardens of Southeast Asia.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f The genus is similar to '' Plexippoides ...

'' (Simon, 1877) – Java * '' Epeus triangulopalpis'' Malamel, Nafin, Sudhikumar & Sebastian, 2019 – India

Footnotes

References

* Murphy, F. & Murphy, J. (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. ''Malaysian Nature Society'', Kuala Lumpur. * Zhang, J. X.; Song, D. X. & Li, D. (2003): Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia. ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'' 51(2):187-195
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(''E. furcatus'') *

External links

* Salticidae.org

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