Harmochirus

Harmochirus
H. insulanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Section:	Dionycha
Superfamily:	Salticoidea
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Pelleninae
Genus:	Harmochirus Simon, 1885
Type species
Ballus brachiatus Thorell, 1877
Species
see text
Diversity
9 species

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

This small genus is very close to Bianor; it seems to replace it where Bianor itself is missing, especially in rainforest habitats.^[1]

Species

• Harmochirus bianoriformis (Strand, 1907) — Central, East Africa, Madagascar
• Harmochirus brachiatus (Thorell, 1877) — India, Bhutan to Taiwan, Indonesia
• Harmochirus duboscqi (Berland & Millot, 1941) — Ivory Coast, Senegal
• Harmochirus insulanus (Kishida, 1914) — China, Korea, Japan
• Harmochirus lloydi Narayan, 1915 — India
• Harmochirus luculentus Simon, 1885 — Central, East, Southern Africa, Zanzibar
• Harmochirus pineus Xiao & Wang, 2005 — China
• Harmochirus proszynski Zhu & Song, 2001 — China
• Harmochirus zabkai Logunov, 2001 — India, Nepal, Vietnam

Footnotes

1. Murphy & Murphy 2000

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.

Further reading

• 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. (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 9(4): 221-286.

External links

• Photograph of H. luculentus