Bathippus
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Bathippus is a genus
of jumping spider
s.
This genus is very similar to the genus Canama
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Members of this genus are distributed throughout the Australasia
n region.
is grey, sometimes with three or four pairs of dark grey marks. The legs are orange, with the latter two pairs lighter than those in front.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of jumping spider
Jumping spider
The jumping spider family contains more than 500 described genera and about 5,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species. Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among invertebrates and use it in courtship, hunting and navigation...
s.
This genus is very similar to the genus Canama
Canama
Canama is a spider genus of the Salticidae family . Its five described species occur from Borneo to Queensland.This genus is very similar to Bathippus.-Description:...
.
Members of this genus are distributed throughout the Australasia
Australasia
Australasia is a region of Oceania comprising Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes...
n region.
Description
Females are 6 to 9 mm long, males up to 10 mm. Bathippus is a colorful, long-legged genus, with long, thin bodies. The males have long, robust, forward-pointing chelicerae. The colors differ between species, but the carapace is in most species orange, sometimes with lighter stripes. The opisthosomaOpisthosoma
The opisthosoma is the posterior part of the body in some arthropods, behind the prosoma . It is a distinctive feature of the subphylum Chelicerata...
is grey, sometimes with three or four pairs of dark grey marks. The legs are orange, with the latter two pairs lighter than those in front.
Habits
Bathippus species are often found wandering about on shrubs in rain forests or their vicinity.Species
- Bathippus birmanicus Thorell, 1895 — Burma
- Bathippus brocchus (Thorell, 1881) — New GuineaNew GuineaNew Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
- Bathippus dentiferellus StrandEmbrik StrandEmbrik Strand was an arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species, including the greenbottle blue tarantula....
, 1911 — Aru IslandsAru IslandsThe Aru Islands are a group of about ninety-five low-lying islands in the Maluku province of eastern Indonesia. They also form a regency of Indonesia.-Geography:... - Bathippus digitalis Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 — SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
- Bathippus dilanians (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea, Aru Islands
- Bathippus elaphus (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
- Bathippus keyensis Strand, 1911 — Kei Islands
- Bathippus kochi (SimonEugène SimonEugène Simon was a French arachnologist. His many taxonomic contributions include categorizing and naming many spiders, as well as creating genera such as Anelosimus, Psellocoptus and Phlogius....
, 1903) — Moluccas - Bathippus latericius (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
- Bathippus macilentus Thorell, 1890 — SumatraSumatraSumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the sixth largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 with a population of 50,365,538...
- Bathippus macrognathus (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
- Bathippus macroprotopus PocockReginald Innes PocockReginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. was a British zoologist.Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward's School, Oxford. He received tutoring in zoology from Sir Edward Poulton, and was allowed...
, 1898 — Solomon IslandsSolomon IslandsSolomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal... - Bathippus manicatus Simon, 1902 — BorneoBorneoBorneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....
- Bathippus molossus (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
- Bathippus montrouzieri (LucasHippolyte LucasPierre-Hippolyte Lucas was a French entomologist.Lucas was an assistant-naturalist at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. From 1839 to 1842 he studied fauna as part of the scientific Commission on the exploration of Algeria.His brother was Prosper Lucas.-Works:*Histoire naturelle des...
, 1869) — QueenslandQueenslandQueensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
, New CaledoniaNew CaledoniaNew Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of... - Bathippus morsitans Pocock, 1897 — Borneo
- Bathippus oedonychus (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
- Bathippus oscitans (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
- Bathippus pahang Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 — Malaysia
- Bathippus palabuanensis Simon, 1902 — JavaJavaJava is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...
- Bathippus papuanus (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea, Solomon Islands
- Bathippus proboscideus Pocock, 1899 — New Guinea
- Bathippus rechingeri Kulczynski, 1910 — Solomon Islands
- Bathippus rectus Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 — Singapore
- Bathippus ringens (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
- Bathippus schalleri Simon, 1902 — Malaysia
- Bathippus sedatus Peckham & PeckhamGeorge and Elizabeth PeckhamGeorge Williams Peckham and Elizabeth Maria Gifford Peckham were early American teachers, taxonomists, ethologists, arachnologists, and entomologists, specializing in animal behavior and in the study of jumping spiders and wasps.-Lives and careers:George Peckham was born in Albany,...
, 1907 — Borneo - Bathippus seltuttensis Strand, 1911 — Aru Islands
- Bathippus shelfordi Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo
- Bathippus waoranus Strand, 1911 — Kei Islands
External links
- Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings and photographs