Palpelius
Encyclopedia
Palpelius is a spider
genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its eleven described species are scattered on islands in the Pacific Ocean
, roughly from Borneo
to New Guinea
, with two species found in Australia
.
is large and high, falling away steeply just behind the rear eyes. The general color is red-brown, with various white patterns on the sides and on the center of the thorax. The abdomen is pale, sometimes with transverse dark bands near the middle and chevrons near the spinnerets. The legs are brown, with the two front pairs stouter and darker, and carrying black fringes below patellae and tibiae.
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...
genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its eleven described species are scattered on islands in the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
, roughly from Borneo
Borneo
Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....
to New Guinea
New Guinea
New 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...
, with two species found in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Description
Females in this genus are about seven millimeters long, males range from 6 to 10. The cephalothoraxCephalothorax
The cephalothorax is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind. The word cephalothorax is derived from the Greek words for head and thorax...
is large and high, falling away steeply just behind the rear eyes. The general color is red-brown, with various white patterns on the sides and on the center of the thorax. The abdomen is pale, sometimes with transverse dark bands near the middle and chevrons near the spinnerets. The legs are brown, with the two front pairs stouter and darker, and carrying black fringes below patellae and tibiae.
Species
- Palpelius albofasciatus 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 - Palpelius arboreus Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo
- Palpelius beccarii (Thorell, 1881) — Moluccas to Australia
- Palpelius clarus RoewerCarl Friedrich RoewerCarl Friedrich Roewer was a German arachnologist. He concentrated on harvestmen, where he described almost a third of today's known species, but also almost 700 taxa of spiders and numerous Solifugae....
, 1938 — New Guinea - Palpelius dearmatus (Thorell, 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...
- Palpelius discedens Kulczyński, 1910 — Bismarck ArchipelagoBismarck ArchipelagoThe Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea.-History:...
- Palpelius fuscoannulatus (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:... - Palpelius kuekenthali (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...
, 1897) — Moluccas - Palpelius namosi Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1996 — FijiFijiFiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
- Palpelius nemoralis Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo
- Palpelius trigyrus Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 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...