Spartaeus

Spartaeus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Spartaeinae
Genus:	Spartaeus; Thorell, 1891
Type species
	S. spinimanus; (Thorell, 1878)
Species
	19, see text

Spartaeus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.^[2] These spiders build large sheet webs on tree trunks to capture prey, mostly moths. When walking, they wave their palps and legs in an unusual way.^[3]

The genus was renamed from Boethus in 1984 because the name was found to be preoccupied.^[1]

Species[]

As of August 2019 it contains nineteen species, found only in Asia:^[1]

Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Vietnam
(Ikeda, 1995) – Japan
Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
Spartaeus ellipticus Bao & Peng, 2002 – Taiwan
Zhu, Yang & Zhang, 2007 – China
Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
Song & Chai, 1991 – China
Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
Song, Chen & Gong, 1991 – China
Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
Spartaeus spinimanus (Thorell, 1878) (type) – Sri Lanka to Indonesia (Borneo, Sumbawa)
Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
Wanless, 1984 – China, Thailand
Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
Wanless, 1987 – Malaysia
Peng & Li, 2002 – China, Laos

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Spartaeus Thorell, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
^ Thorell, T. (1891). "Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 24 (2): 1–149.
^ "Web building and predatory behaviour of Spartaeus spinimanus and Spartaeus thailandicus, primitive jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from South-East Asia". Research Gate. Retrieved 4 June 2016.

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[NMBE-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Gen. Spartaeus Thorell, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

[Thor1891-2] Thorell, T. (1891). "Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 24 (2): 1–149.

[3] "Web building and predatory behaviour of Spartaeus spinimanus and Spartaeus thailandicus, primitive jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from South-East Asia". Research Gate. Retrieved 4 June 2016.

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