Anarrhotus is a genus of jumping spiders. The only described species Anarrhotus fossulatus is endemic to Malaysia. It is one of several monotypic genera from Southeast Asia where, despite their first description dating back more than a hundred years, there are no habitat details, although genital and sometimes other drawings are now available for several of them. Anarrhotus is only known from a single male specimen, the pedipalp of which was drawn by Proszynski (1984). The original describer Eugène Simon put the genus close to Pancorius. The male is 6 mm long.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Anarrhotus Simon, 1902[1] |
| Species: | A. fossulatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Anarrhotus fossulatus Simon, 1902[1]
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Plexippoides nishitakensis (Strand, 1907) was originally put in this genus, but transferred by Proszynski in 1984.
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Anarrhotus Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-02-24.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 270
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
Further reading
edit- Simon, E. (1902). Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 71: 389-421.
- Prószyński, J. (1984). Remarks on Anarrhotus, Epeus and Plexippoides (Araneae, Salticidae). Annls zool. Warsz. 37: 399-410.
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