Bristowia heterospinosa

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Salticoidea

Familia: Salticidae
Subfamilia: Agoriinae
Tribus: Piliini
Genus: Bristowia
Species: Bristowia heterospinosa
Name

Bristowia heterospinosa Reimoser, 1934

Type locality: Krakatau Islands, Indonesia

Lectotype: NHMW. male ♂. legit W. S. Bristowe.
References
Primary references

Reimoser, E. 1934a. The spiders of Krakatau. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1934(1): 13-18. Reference page.

Additional references

Ikeda, H. 1995. Two poorly known species of salticid spiders from Japan. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 44: 159–166. [160, f. 1-14] PDF

Vernacular names
日本語: マツモトハエトリ
한국어: 꼬마금오깡충거미

Bristowia heterospinosa is a species of jumping spider from Asia. It was first found on Krakatau,[1] but later also in Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore,[1] China, Korea and Japan.[2]

Although it was the only species in its genus until 2004, when a second species was found in Africa, it is quite often found in habitats such as garden litter.[1]
Description

Both sexes are from 3 to 4 mm long. The deep orange cephalothorax is almost rhombus shaped when viewed from the side. The eye field is black. The pale whitish orange, elongate oval abdomen is narrower than the front part. A darkish line runs like a ring around it when viewed from the top. Some dark marks are present. The legs are relatively long and slender, with the first pair of legs much more robust than the others. The spines on the first pair are very long and strong, while those on the other legs are weak, and almost colorless, which gave the species its name. The robust parts of the front legs are brown, all the other segments and legs resemble the abdomen in color.[1]
Male specimen in Japan
Footnotes

Murphy & Murphy 2000: 290

Platnick 2007

References

Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.