Spartaeus
Genus of spiders
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Spartaeus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.[2] These spiders build large sheet webs on tree trunks to capture prey, mostly moths. When walking, they wave their palps and legs in an unusual way.[3]
| Spartaeus | |
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| S. zhangi from Hong Kong | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Spartaeinae |
| Genus: | Spartaeus Thorell, 1891[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. spinimanus (Thorell, 1878) | |
| Species | |
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19, see text | |
The genus was renamed from Boethus in 1984 because the name was found to be preoccupied.[1] It is named after the son of the Rhodian nymph Himalia and Zeus in Greek mythology.
Species
As of August 2019[update] it contains nineteen species, found only in Asia:[1]
- Spartaeus abramovi Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Vietnam
- Spartaeus bani (Ikeda, 1995) – Japan
- Spartaeus banthamus Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
- Spartaeus ellipticus Bao & Peng, 2002 – Taiwan
- Spartaeus emeishan Zhu, Yang & Zhang, 2007 – China
- Spartaeus forcipiformis Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
- Spartaeus jaegeri Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
- Spartaeus jianfengensis Song & Chai, 1991 – China
- Spartaeus karigiri Caleb et al., 2025 – India
- Spartaeus noctivagus Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
- Spartaeus pinniformis Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
- Spartaeus platnicki Song, Chen & Gong, 1991 – China
- Spartaeus serratus Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
- Spartaeus spinimanus (Thorell, 1878) (type) – Sri Lanka to Indonesia (Borneo, Sumbawa)
- Spartaeus tengchongensis Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
- Spartaeus thailandicus Wanless, 1984 – China, Thailand
- Spartaeus triapiculus Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
- Spartaeus uplandicus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
- Spartaeus wildtrackii Wanless, 1987 – Malaysia
- Spartaeus zhangi Peng & Li, 2002 – China, Laos
