''Eupoa'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
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 ...
s in the 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 ...
(jumping spiders). Originally known only from one species from
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 ...
, several other species have been described since 1997, all from Asia.
Spiders of this genus have unusual
pedipalp
Pedipalps (commonly shortened to palps or palpi) are the secondary pair of forward appendages among Chelicerata, chelicerates – a group of arthropods including spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders. The pedipalps are lateral to ...
s, and do probably not belong to the
Salticoida
Salticoida is an unranked clade of the jumping spider family Salticidae. It is the larger and more widespread of the two subdivisions of the "typical" jumping spiders (subfamily Salticinae), occurring effectively world-wide. Its sister clade is ...
, the main clade of jumping spiders. It is
basal, but placement is not yet clear. Possibly ''Eupoa'' has branched from other basal groups like
Lyssomaninae
Lyssomaninae is a subfamily of jumping spiders. It includes four genera, three from the New World.
Description
Members of the subfamily Lyssomaninae are mostly green or yellow, and have long legs compared to other salticids. The anterior later ...
or
Spartaeinae
The Spartaeinae are a subfamily of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). The subfamily was established by Fred R. Wanless in 1984 to include the groups Boetheae, Cocaleae, Lineae, Codeteae and Cyrbeae, which in turn were defined by Eu ...
a long time ago.
[Maddison ''et al.'' 2007:21]
Specimens of ''E. prima'' were collected from leaf litter.
[Murphy & Murphy 2000: 292]
Description
''Eupoa'' are small salticids, with ''E. prima'' only reaching about 2 mm in both sexes. Although not closely related, it looks a bit like ''
Neon
Neon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ne and atomic number 10. It is the second noble gas in the periodic table. Neon is a colorless, odorless, inert monatomic gas under standard conditions, with approximately two-thirds the density of ...
'', another litter dwelling species.
[
The abdomen is dark with light elongate transversal patches.
]
Species
, it contains eighteen species:Eupoa lehtineni
''Eupoa'' is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Originally known only from one species from Vietnam, several other species have been described since 1997, all from Asia.
Spiders of this genus have unusual pedipalps, a ...
'' Logunov & Marusik, 2014 — India, Thailand, Vietnam
* '' Eupoa lobli'' Logunov & Marusik, 2014 — Malaysia
* '' Eupoa logunovi'' Wang & Li, 2022 — China
* '' Eupoa maddisoni'' Wang, Li & Pham, 2023 — Vietnam
* '' Eupoa maidinhyeni'' Wang, Li & Pham, 2023 — Vietnam
* '' Eupoa nezha'' Maddison & Zhang, 2007 — China
* '' Eupoa ninhbinh'' Wang, Li & Pham, 2023 — Vietnam
* '' Eupoa pappi'' Logunov & Marusik, 2014 — Thailand
* '' Eupoa pengi'' Liu, 2021 — China
* ''Eupoa prima
''Eupoa prima'' is a species of jumping spider from Vietnam. Described in 1985, it was for some time the only described species in the genus ''Eupoa''; however, since 1997 six new species have been reported.
Description
Both sexes are one to two ...
'' Żabka, 1985 — Vietnam
* '' Eupoa pulchella'' Logunov & Marusik, 2014 — Thailand, Laos
* '' Eupoa schwendingeri'' Logunov & Marusik, 2014 — Thailand
* '' Eupoa thailandica'' Logunov & Marusik, 2014 — Thailand
* '' Eupoa yunnanensis'' Peng & Kim, 1997 — China, Laos
* '' Eupoa zabkai'' Wang, Li & Pham, 2023 — Vietnam
Footnotes
References
* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. ''Malaysian Nature Society'', Kuala Lumpur.
* (2007): A basal phylogenetic placement for the salticid spider Eupoa, with descriptions of two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). ''Zootaxa'' 1432: 23-33
Abstract
External links
* Salticidae.org
of most species
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Salticidae genera
Spiders of Asia
Salticidae