Piranthus
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| Genus: | Piranthus Thorell, 1895
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| Piranthus decorus Thorell, 1895
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| 2 species | |
Piranthus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
Simon compares this genus with Padilla.[1]
According to Thorell, the genus name is taken from Greek mythology.
Description
The female P. decorus is about 9 millimetres (1⁄3 in) long. The spider is mostly black, with some white pubescence on the sides of the cephalorthorax, and a dark median stripe in the middle of a wide light median band on the longish abdomen. The female palps are yellowish white. The legs are very short, with the first pair much more robust. They are reddish-brown with black rings.[1]
Species
- Piranthus casteti Simon, 1900 – India
- Piranthus decorus Thorell, 1895 – Burma
Footnotes
References
- Tamerlan Thorell 1895: Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma p. 338
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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