Harmochirus

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: Pelleninae
Genus: Harmochirus
Species: H. ahmedi – H. bianoriformis – H. brachiatus – H. duboscqi – H. exaggeratus – H. insulanus – H. lloydi – H. luculentus – H. pineus – H. tikaderi – H. zabkai
Name

Harmochirus Simon, 1885

Type species: Harmochirus malaccensis Simon, 1885 [=H. brachiatus
Thorell, 1877], by monotypy
Synonyms

Valloa Peckham & Peckham, 1903, type V. modesta Peckham & Peckham, 1903 [nom. dub.]

References

Simon, E. 1885. Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale. III. Arachnides recuellis en 1884 dans la presqu'île de Malacca, par M. J. Morgan. IV. Arachnides recuellis à Collegal, district de Coimbatoore, par M. A. Theobald G. R. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 10: 436–462. [441]

Additional references

Biswas, V. & Raychaudhuri, D. 2019. A new species of the jumping spider genus Harmochirus Simon, 1885 from Bangladesh (Araneae: Salticidae). Serket 17(1): 21-26. Reference page.
Caleb, J.T.D. & Mathai, M.T. 2015a. Description of a new species of Harmochirus Simon (Araneae: Salticidae) from South India. Munis Entomology and Zoology 10(1): 117-121. Reference page.
Logunov, D.V. 2001: A redefinition of the genera Bianor Peckham & Peckham, 1885 and Harmochirus Simon, 1885, with the establishment of a new genus Sibianor gen. n. (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta, 9: 221–286. PDF
Logunov, D.V. 2009: Further notes on the Harmochireae of Africa (Araneae, Salticidae, Pelleninae). In: Stoev, P.; Dunlop, J.; Lazarov, S. (eds) A life caught in a spider's web. Papers in arachnology in honour of Christo Deltshev. ZooKeys, 16: 265–290. Abstract PDF

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
한국어: 왕발깡충거미속

Harmochirus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).[1]

This small genus is very close to Bianor; it seems to replace it where Bianor itself is missing, especially in rainforest habitats.[2]
Species

As of March 2017, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

Harmochirus ahmedi Biswas, 2016 – Bangladesh
Harmochirus bianoriformis (Strand, 1907) – Central and East Africa, Madagascar
Harmochirus brachiatus (Thorell, 1877) (type species) – India, Bhutan to Taiwan, Indonesia
Harmochirus duboscqi (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Ivory Coast, Senegal
Harmochirus exaggeratus Caleb & Mathai, 2015 – India
Harmochirus insulanus (Kishida, 1914) – China, Korea, Japan
Harmochirus lloydi Narayan, 1915 – India
Harmochirus luculentus Simon, 1886 – Africa, Zanzibar, Yemen
Harmochirus pineus Xiao & Wang, 2005 – China
Harmochirus zabkai Logunov, 2001 – India, Nepal, Vietnam

References

"Gen. Harmochirus Simon, 1885". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-03-08.

Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. ISBN 978-983-9681-17-8.