Bristowia is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family, Salticidae, found in Africa and Asia.[1]
| Bristowia | |
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| Male Bristowia sp. in Malaysia | |
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: | Bristowia Reimoser, 1934[1] |
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| Diversity[1] | |
| 3 species | |
B. heterospinosa is about 3 to 4 mm long in both sexes.[2]
Name
editThe genus is named after naturalist and arachnologist W. S. Bristowe.
Species
editAs of April 2017[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]
- Bristowia afra Szűts, 2004 — Congo basin
- Bristowia gandhii Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2016 — Sri Lanka
- Bristowia heterospinosa Reimoser, 1934 — India, China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Krakatau
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Gen. Bristowia Reimoser, 1934". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-04-01.
- ^ Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. ISBN 978-983-9681-17-8.
Bibliography
edit- Szűts, T. (2004). "A revision of the genus Bristowia (Araneae: Salticidae)". Folia entomologica hungarica 65: 25-31. PDF
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