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Epeus Peckham & Peckham 1886

Description

Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1886

Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1886: 271, 334.

Type species. – Evenus tenera Simon, 1877, by original designation; Zabka, 1985: 214; Peng et al., 1993: 48.

Diagnosis. – The genus is similar to Plexippoides in epigynum with a shallow depression, long copulatory duct forming several loops; palpal organ with outgrowth of cymbium and auricular outgrowth of palpal bulb. However, it differs from the latter in: cephalothorax distinctly tall, outgrowth of cymbium long and located at outside or front of the tibial apophysis, auricular outgrowth at central or back part of the palpal bulb.

Remarks. – Members of this genus are mainly distributed in South-east Asia. Up to now, 11 species have been recorded in the world (Platnick, 2003), not including the new species described in this paper.

Notes

Published as part of Zhang, J. X., Song, D. X. & Li, Daiqin, 2003, Six New And One Newly Recorded Species Of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) From Singapore And Malaysia, pp. 187-195 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2) on page 192, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618788

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Salticidae
Genus
Epeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Peckham & Peckham
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Epeus Peckham, 1886 sec. Zhang, Song & Li, 2003

References

  • Peckham, G. W. & E. G Peckham, 1886. Genera of the family Attidae: with a partial synonymy. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, 6: 255 - 342.
  • Simon, E., 1877. Etudes arachnologiques. 5 e Memoire. IX. Arachnides recueillis aux iles Phillipines par MM. G. A. Baer et Laglaise. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, (5) 7: 53 - 96.
  • Zabka, M., 1985. Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam. Annales Zoologici Warszawa, 39: 197 - 485.
  • Peng, X. J., L. P. Xie, X. Q. Xiao & C. M. Yin, 1993. Salticids in China (Arachniuda: Araneae). Hunan Normal University Press, Changsha, 270 pp.
  • Platnick, N. I., 2003. The World Spider Catalog, version 3.5. American Museum of Natural History, online at http: // research. amnh. org / entomology / spiders / catalog 81 - 87 / index. html