Bathippus is a genus of jumping spiders.

Bathippus
Head of a male B. montrouzieri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Bathippus
Thorell, 1892
Type species
Plexippus macrognathus
Thorell, 1881
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This genus is very similar to the genus Canama.[1]

Members of this genus are distributed throughout the Australasian region.

The genus name is derived from Βάθιππος, a Greek name.

Description

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Females are 6 to 9 mm long, males up to 10 mm. Bathippus is a colorful, long-legged genus, with long, thin bodies. The males have long, robust, forward-pointing chelicerae. The colors differ between species, but the carapace is in most species orange, sometimes with lighter stripes. The opisthosoma is grey, sometimes with three or four pairs of dark grey marks. The legs are orange, with the latter two pairs lighter than those in front.[2]

Habits

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Bathippus species are often found wandering about on shrubs in rain forests or their vicinity.[2]

Species

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ Zhang et al. 2003
  2. ^ a b Murphy & Murphy 2000: 295

References

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  • Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Zhang, J.X.; Song, D.X. & Li, D. (2003): Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2): 187-195. PDF Archived 2006-12-29 at the Wayback Machine (B. digitalis, B. pahang, B. rectus)
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The World Spider Catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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