Iridescent Asemonea
This translucent jumping spider shows the unique eye arrangement typical of the subfamily Asemoneinae: the eyes are positioned in four rows, with the ALE positioned behind and above the AME. forming a second anterior eye row.
While the female is palely coloured with a few dark spots, the male has spectacular iridescent orange and purple scales on the abdomen and two of its spinnerets are particularly elongated and black.
| Length | ♀ 4–5 mm; ♂ 4–5 mm |
| Type Locality | Sri Lanka, South Asia |
| Distribution | South Asia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka. |
| Habitat | Under leaves of mangrove vegetation. |
| Biology | They are typically found under green leaves. Females line their eggs in a single row. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Lyssomanes tenuipes (Original description ♂)
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869c Descriptions and sketches of some new species of Araneida, with characters of a new genus: 65, pl. 5, f. 50-52 doi:10.1080/00222936908695878
Asemonea tenuipes
Peckham & Peckham, 1886 Genera of the family Attidae: with a partial synonymy: 340
Asemonea tenuipes (♂, D♀)
Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 Spiders of the subfamily Lyssomanae: 243, pl. 12, f. 5, 19
Asemonea cingulata (Original description ♂)
Thorell, 1895b Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum: 314 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.17492
Asemonea tenuipes (♂)
Simon, 1901a Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second: 399, f. 399-400, 412 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973
Lyssomanes andamanensis (Original description ♂♀)
Tikader, 1977a Studies on spider fauna of Andaman and Nicobar islands, Indian Ocean: 205, f. 25A-C
Lyssomanes bengalensis (Original description ♀)
Tikader & Biswas, 1978 Two new species of spiders of the family Lyssomanidae from India: 259, f. 4-6
Asemonea tenuipes (mf, Synonym of Lyssomanes andamanensis, L. bengalensis and L. cingulata)
Wanless, 1980d A revision of the spider genera Asemonea and Pandisus (Araneae: Salticidae): 240, f. 2D, 18A-I
Lyssomanes andamanensis (♂♀)
Tikader & Biswas, 1981 Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I: 109, f. 201-203
Asemonea tenuipes (♀)
Prószyński, 1984a Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae): 3
Asemonea tenuipes (♀)
Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016 A treatise on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of tea ecosystem of Dooars, West Bengal, India: 23, f. 19A-E, 25H, 27Q
Asemonea tenuipes (♂♀)
Prószyński, 2017b Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae): 125, f. 54H-I, 55A doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1
Asemonea tenuipes (♂♀)
Tam, Nhan & Khang, 2020 First record for Asemonea tenuipes in Vietnam (Araneae: Salticidae: Asemoneinae): 1, f. 1-3
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
South Asia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka.