Evarcha
Encyclopedia
Evarcha is a genus
of the spider
family Salticidae (jumping spider
s).
, Africa
and parts of Europe
, with E. amabilis and E. hoyi found only in the USA. E. proszynskii is found from Russia
to Japan
and Canada
to USA.
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 the spider
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
family Salticidae (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).
Habitat
These spiders are often found on shrubs and short plants in damp areas, resting in silken cells.Description
Spiders in this genus generally look rather sturdy and ar not very colorful, often brownish.Distribution
Most species occur in AsiaAsia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
and parts of Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, with E. amabilis and E. hoyi found only in the USA. E. proszynskii is found from Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
to Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
to USA.
Species
- Evarcha acuta Wesolowska, 2006 — NamibiaNamibiaNamibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...
- Evarcha albaria (L. KochLudwig Carl Christian KochLudwig Carl Christian Koch was a German entomologist and arachnologist.He was born in Regensburg, Germany and died in Nuremberg, Germany. He studied in Nuremberg, initially law, but then turned to medicine and science...
, 1878) — RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
, KoreaKoreaKorea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... - Evarcha amabilis (C. L. KochCarl Ludwig KochCarl Ludwig Koch was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was responsible for classifying a great number of spiders, including the Brazilian whiteknee tarantula and Common house spider. He was born in Kusel, Germany and died in Nuremberg, Germany.Carl Ludwig Koch was an inspector of water...
, 1846) — USA - Evarcha aposto Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 — Ethiopia
- Evarcha arabica Wesolowska & van Harten, 2007 — Yemen
- Evarcha arcuataEvarcha arcuataEvarcha arcuata is a species of jumping spider.-Description:Males reach a body length of about six, females up to eight millimetres. The female has a brown and whitish cephalothorax, and an opisthosoma with a distinct pattern of black diagonal spots, sometimes with a white outline.The male is in...
(Clerck, 1757) — PalearcticPalearcticThe Palearctic or Palaearctic is one of the eight ecozones dividing the Earth's surface.Physically, the Palearctic is the largest ecozone... - Evarcha armeniaca Logunov, 1999 — ArmeniaArmeniaArmenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
, AzerbaijanAzerbaijanAzerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to... - Evarcha awashi Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 — Ethiopia
- Evarcha bakorensis Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002 — GuineaGuineaGuinea , officially the Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea , it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbour Guinea-Bissau. Guinea is divided into eight administrative regions and subdivided into thirty-three prefectures...
- Evarcha bicoronata (Simon, 1901) — Hong KongHong KongHong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
- Evarcha bicuspidataEvarcha bicuspidataEvarcha bicuspidata is a jumping spider found only in Vietnam. It is closely related to E. hunanensis from China.The spider is 3.6 mm long. Males are dark brown, with a darker area around the eyes. They are covered with dark brown and white hairs. Two pairs of yellowish brown transverse bands...
Peng & Li, 2003 — VietnamVietnamVietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –... - Evarcha bihastata Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — TanzaniaTanzaniaThe United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
- Evarcha bulbosa Zabka, 1985 — China, Vietnam
- Evarcha cancellata (Simon, 1902) — Sri LankaSri LankaSri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
, 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... - Evarcha certa Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002 — Guinea
- Evarcha chappuisi Lessert, 1925 — East AfricaEast AfricaEast Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
- Evarcha chubbi Lessert, 1925 — East Africa
- Evarcha coreana Seo, 1988 — China, Korea
- Evarcha crinita Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005 — AfghanistanAfghanistanAfghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
- Evarcha culicivoraEvarcha culicivoraEvarcha culicivora is a species of jumping spider from Kenya. It is also known as the "Vampire Spider."It feeds mainly on the mosquito species Anopheles gambiae, the main vector of malaria in the region....
Wesolowska & Jackson, 2003 — Kenya - Evarcha darinurica Logunov, 2001 — Afghanistan
- Evarcha digitata Peng & Li, 2002 — China
- Evarcha dubia (Kulczynski, 1901) — EthiopiaEthiopiaEthiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
- Evarcha elegans Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — Tanzania
- Evarcha eriki Wunderlich, 1987 — Canary IslandsCanary IslandsThe Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
- Evarcha falcataEvarcha falcataEvarcha falcata is a species of jumping spider with Palaearctic distribution.Females are about 7 mm long, males slightly shorter.Two subspecies are currently recognised:* Evarcha falcata nigrofusca...
(Clerck, 1757) — Palearctic- Evarcha falcata nigrofusca (StrandEmbrik StrandEmbrik Strand was an arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species, including the greenbottle blue tarantula....
, 1900) — NorwayNorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... - Evarcha falcata xinglongensis Yang & Tang, 1996 — China
- Evarcha falcata nigrofusca (Strand
- Evarcha fasciata Seo, 1992 — China, Korea, Japan
- Evarcha flavocincta (C. L. Koch, 1846) — China to Java
- Evarcha gausapata (Thorell, 1890) — Sumatra, Java
- Evarcha hirticeps (Song & Chai, 1992) — China
- Evarcha hoyi (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,...
, 1883) — USA, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... - Evarcha hunanensis Peng, Xie & Kim, 1993 — China
- Evarcha hyllinella Strand, 1913 — LombokLombokLombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It forms part of the chain of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa to the east...
- Evarcha ignea Wesolowska & Cumming, 2008 — Zimbabwe
- Evarcha improcera Wesolowska & van Harten, 2007 — Yemen
- Evarcha infrastriata (KeyserlingEugen von KeyserlingEugen von Keyserling was a German arachnologist.He was the author of Die Spinnen Amerikas, and completed Die Arachniden Australiens on behalf of Ludwig Carl Christian Koch.-External links:...
, 1881) — 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... - Evarcha jucundaEvarcha jucundaEvarcha jucunda is a species of jumping spider.It occurs naturally in the Mediterranean region, but was introduced to Belgium. It is also sometimes found in German greenhouses. Typically, it shows a large white or yellowish band surrounding the head region and a smaller one at the anterior end of...
(Lucas, 1846) — Mediterranean, introduced in BelgiumBelgiumBelgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many... - Evarcha kirghisica Rakov, 1997 — KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...
- Evarcha laetabunda (C. L. Koch, 1846) — Palearctic
- Evarcha maculata Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002 — Guinea
- Evarcha madagascariensis Prószynski, 1992 — MadagascarMadagascarThe Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
- Evarcha michailovi Logunov, 1992 — FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Russia, Central AsiaCentral AsiaCentral Asia is a core region of the Asian continent from the Caspian Sea in the west, China in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north...
, China - Evarcha mongolica Danilov & Logunov, 1994 — Russia, China
- Evarcha mustela (Simon, 1902) — East, Southern Africa
- Evarcha natalica Simon, 1902 — South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
- Evarcha negevensis Prószynski, 2000 — IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
- Evarcha nenilini Rakov, 1997 — Central Asia
- Evarcha nepos (O. P-CambridgeOctavius Pickard-CambridgeThe Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS was an English clergyman and zoologist.Pickard-Cambridge was born in Bloxworth rectory, Dorset, the fifth son of Revd George Pickard, rector and squire of Bloxworth: the family changed their name to Pickard-Cambridge in 1848...
, 1872) — Israel - Evarcha nigricans (Dalmas, 1920) — TunisiaTunisiaTunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...
- Evarcha obscura Caporiacco, 1947 — East AfricaEast AfricaEast Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 19 territories constitute Eastern Africa:...
- Evarcha optabilis (Fox, 1937) — China
- Evarcha orientalis (Song & Chai, 1992) — China
- Evarcha paralbaria Song & Chai, 1992 — China
- Evarcha patagiata (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) — SyriaSyriaSyria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
- Evarcha petrae Prószynski, 1992 — ThailandThailandThailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
- Evarcha picta Wesolowska & van Harten, 2007 — Yemen
- Evarcha pileckii Prószynski, 2000 — Israel
- Evarcha pinguis Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 — Ethiopia
- Evarcha pococki Zabka, 1985 — BhutanBhutanBhutan , officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked state in South Asia, located at the eastern end of the Himalayas and bordered to the south, east and west by the Republic of India and to the north by the People's Republic of China...
to Vietnam, China - Evarcha praeclara Prószynski & Wesolowska, 2003 — Sudan, Israel, YemenYemenThe Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....
- Evarcha prosimilis Wesolowska & Cumming, 2008 — Tanzania, Zimbabwe
- Evarcha proszynskii Marusik & Logunov, 1998 — Russia to Japan, USA, Canada
- Evarcha pseudopococki Peng, Xie & Kim, 1993 — China
- Evarcha pulchella (Thorell, 1895) — MyanmarMyanmarBurma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....
- Evarcha reiskindi Berry, Beatty & Prószynski, 1996 — Caroline IslandsCaroline IslandsThe Caroline Islands are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Politically they are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia in the eastern part of the group, and Palau at the extreme western end...
- Evarcha rotundibulbis Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 — Ethiopia
- Evarcha russellsmithi Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 — Ethiopia
- Evarcha seyun Wesolowska & van Harten, 2007 — Yemen
- Evarcha sichuanensis Peng, Xie & Kim, 1993 — China
- Evarcha similis Caporiacco, 1941 — Ethiopia
- Evarcha squamulata (Simon, 1902) — Sierra Leone
- Evarcha syriaca Kulczynski, 1911 — Syria, Israel
- Evarcha vitosa Próchniewicz, 1989 — Central, East Africa
- Evarcha wenxianensis Tang & Yang, 1995 — China
- Evarcha wulingensis Peng, Xie & Kim, 1993 — China
- Evarcha zimbabwensis Wesolowska & Cumming, 2008 — Zimbabwe