Piranthus

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: Salticinae
Clades: Salticoida
Tribus: Baviini
Genus: Piranthus
Species: P. api – P. bakau – P. casteti – P. decorus – P. kohi – P. mandai – P. planolancis
Name

Piranthus Thorell, 1895

Type species: Piranthus decorus Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell, 1895

gender: masculine
References
Primary references

Thorell, T.T.T. 1895. Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma: 1-406. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.17492. Reference page.

Additional references

Maddison, W.P., Beattie, I., Marathe, K., Ng, P.Y.C., Kaneshaatnam, N., Benjamin, S.P. & Kunte, K. 2020. A phylogenetic and taxonomic review of baviine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Baviini). ZooKeys, 1004: 27–97. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1004.57526 Open access Reference page.
Malamel, J.J., Nafin, K.S., Sudhikumar, A.V. & Sebastian, P.A. 2019. Two new species of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the genera Epeus Peckham et Peckham, 1886 and Piranthus Thorell, 1895 from India. Arthropoda Selecta 28(2): 267-276. Reference page. .
Nafin, K.S., Maddison, W.P. & Sudhikumar, A.V. 2020. The first described male of the Asian jumping spider genus Piranthus Thorell, 1895 (Araneae: Salticidae: Baviini). Peckhamia 207.1: 1-7. Reference page.

Piranthus is a genus of jumping spiders first described in 1895 by Tamerlan Thorell, who derived the name from Greek mythology.[1] As of February 2019 this genus contains only two species.[2]

The first male was described in June 2020.[3] These spiders are mostly black with some white pubescence on the sides of the cephalothorax. The longish abdomen has a dark median stripe in the middle of a wide light median band. The legs are reddish-brown with black rings and very short, with the first pair much more robust than the others.[4] The palps of females are yellowish white and the female P. decorus is about 9 millimetres (1⁄3 in) long.[4] Eugène Simon compared this genus with Padilla.[4]
References

Thorell, Tamerlan (1895). Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma.
"Gen. Piranthus Thorell, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
Karunnappilli et al. 2020: The first described male of the Asian jumping spider genus Piranthus Thorell, 1895 (Araneae: Salticidae: Baviini)
Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. p. 286.