''Epeus'' is a

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of the

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family Salticidae ( jumping spiders). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of rain forest, or in gardens of

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.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f The genus is similar to '' Plexippoides''.Zhang ''et al.'' 2003

Description

Females are 7–9 mm long, males 6–9 mm. They are long-legged with a long

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, 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

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

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Species

, the

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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) –

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 ...

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 Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

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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 –

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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,

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Chen, 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'' Patoleta, Gardzińska & Żabka, 2020 –

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

* '' Epeus edwardsi'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 –

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

* '' Epeus exdomus'' Jastrzebski, 2010 –

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

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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 ...

'' (

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 Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...

* '' Epeus furcatus'' Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 –

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

* '' 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 Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

* '' 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'' (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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