Heratemita
Male Heratemita alboplagiata in the Philippines
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Heratemita
Strand, 1932
Type species
Heratemis chrysozona
Simon, 1899
Species

See text.

Heratemita is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

Description

Females are about 8 mm (0.31 in) long, males 5 to 7 mm (0.20 to 0.28 in). The black carapace is wider than long, very rugose and covered with sparse violet squamose hairs. There are four large white patches near the posterior eyes. The abdomen is elongate and also sparsely covered with violet hairs, with three white longitudinal stripes. The legs are slender and black with yellow-gold marks, except for the very robust frontal pair, which are black with yellow tarsi and metatarsi. The large male chelicerae run parallel and then suddenly diverge at right angles.[1]

Species

As of May 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:[2]

  • Heratemita alboplagiata (Simon, 1899) – Philippines
  • Heratemita chrysozona (Simon, 1899) – Sumatra
  • Heratemita tenenbaumi Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012 – Sumatra

References

  1. ↑ Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. p. 284.
  2. ↑ World Spider Catalog (2017). "Gen. Heratemita Strand, 1932". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
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