Heratemita is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
| Heratemita | |
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| Male Heratemita alboplagiata in the Philippines | |
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: | Heratemita Strand, 1932 |
| Type species | |
| Heratemis chrysozona Simon, 1899
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| Species | |
Description
editFemales are about 8 mm (0.31 in) long, males 5 to 7 mm (0.20 to 0.28 in). The black carapace is wider than long, very rugose and covered with sparse violet squamose hairs. There are four large white patches near the posterior eyes. The abdomen is elongate and also sparsely covered with violet hairs, with three white longitudinal stripes. The legs are slender and black with yellow-gold marks, except for the very robust frontal pair, which are black with yellow tarsi and metatarsi. The large male chelicerae run parallel and then suddenly diverge at right angles.[1]
Species
editAs of May 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:[2]
- Heratemita alboplagiata (Simon, 1899) – Philippines
- Heratemita chrysozona (Simon, 1899) – Sumatra
- Heratemita tenenbaumi Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012 – Sumatra
References
edit- ^ Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society. p. 284.
- ^ World Spider Catalog (2017). "Gen. Heratemita Strand, 1932". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 30 May 2017.