Pharacocerus
Pharacocerus is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[2] Males are about 4 to 6 millimetres (0.16 to 0.24 in) long, and they are likely related to Plexippus.[3]
Pharacocerus | |
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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: | Pharacocerus Simon, 1902[1] |
Type species | |
P. sessor Simon, 1902 | |
Species | |
7, see text |
Species
As of August 2019 it contains seven species and two subspecies, found only in Africa:[1]
- Pharacocerus castaneiceps Simon, 1910 – Guinea-Bissau
- Pharacocerus ebenauensis Strand, 1908 – Madagascar
- Pharacocerus ephippiatus (Thorell, 1899) – Cameroon
- Pharacocerus fagei Berland & Millot, 1941 – Ivory Coast
- Pharacocerus rubrocomatus Simon, 1910 – Congo
- Pharacocerus sessor Simon, 1902 (type) – Madagascar
- Pharacocerus xanthopogon Simon, 1903 – Equatorial Guinea
References
- "Gen. Pharacocerus Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
- Simon, E. (1902). "Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 71: 389–421.
- Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society.
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