''Epeus'' is a

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of the

spider Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...

family

Salticidae Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family (biology), family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 species description, described genus, genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spide ...

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jumping spider Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family (biology), family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 species description, described genus, genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spide ...

s). They are often found on broad-leaved plants or shrubs of

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, or in gardens of

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...

.Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298f The genus is similar to ''

Plexippoides ''Plexippoides'' is a genus of Salticidae, jumping spiders that was first described by Jerzy Prószyński in 1984. The name means "having the likeness of ''Plexippus (spider), Plexippus''" Species it contains twenty-six species, found in easter ...

''.Zhang ''et al.'' 2003

Description

Like most spiders, they exhibit sexual dimorphism. Females are 7–9 mm long, males 6–9 mm. They are long-legged with a long

opisthosoma The opisthosoma is the posterior part of the body in some arthropods, behind the prosoma ( cephalothorax). It is a distinctive feature of the subphylum Chelicerata (arachnids, horseshoe crabs and others). Although it is similar in most respects ...

, and quite colorful. Males have a characteristic v-shaped crest of raised, long hairs on the head, resembling a

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. ''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 There were two characters named Epeius (; Ancient Greek: Ἐπειός ''Epeiós'') or Epeus in Greek mythology. * Epeius, an Elean prince as son of King Endymion. He ran a race at Olympia, against his brothers Aetolus and Paeon, winning his f ...

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Species

, the

World Spider Catalog The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ...

accepts the following species: * '' Epeus alboguttatus'' ( Thorell, 1887) –

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

* '' Epeus albus'' Prószyński, 1992 –

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

* '' Epeus bicuspidatus'' (Song, Gu & Chen, 1988) – China,

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

Chen, 2013 * '' Epeus chilapataensis'' (Biswas & Biswas, 1992) – India * '' Epeus daiqini'' Patoleta, Gardzińska & Żabka, 2020 –

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

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

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

* '' Epeus exdomus'' Jastrzebski, 2010 –

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

* '' Epeus flavobilineatus'' (

Doleschall Carl Ludwig Doleschall (; ; born 15 July 1827 – died 26 February 1859) was born in Vág-Újhely, Kingdom of Hungary (1526–1867), Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia), as the son of the theologian Michael Do ...

, 1859) –

Java Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea (a part of Pacific Ocean) to the north. With a population of 156.9 million people (including Madura) in mid 2024, proje ...

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

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

* '' 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 () is the List of islands by area, third-largest island in the world, with an area of , and population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda ...

* '' 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 list of islands by area, sixth-largest island in the world at 482,286.55 km2 (182,812 mi. ...

* '' 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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