Nannenus
Appearance
Nannenus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Nannenus Simon, 1902[1] |
Type species | |
N. syrphus Simon, 1902
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Species | |
6, see text |
Nannenus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[2]
Description
[edit]Both sexes are about 4 millimetres (1⁄4 in) long. The cephalus is high, the eye region blackish with the area between the rear eyes lighter. The rest of the thorax is brown with a whitish lateral band on each side. The abdomen is small and light yellowish with a vague white pattern.[3]
Species
[edit]As of July 2019[update] it contains six species, found only in Asia:[1]
- Nannenus constrictus (Karsch, 1880) – Philippines
- Nannenus lyriger Simon, 1902 – Singapore
- Nannenus maughami Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Nannenus menghaiensis Cao & Li, 2016 – China
- Nannenus siedleckii Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Nannenus syrphus Simon, 1902 (type) – Singapore
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Nannenus Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
- ^ Simon, E. (1902). "Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 46: 363–406.
- ^ Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. p. 286.