Bristowe’s Spiny-legged Jumper
This species was described in honour of W.S. Bristowe, a British industrialist who had written prolifically on the natural history of spiders and who had collected many specimens while on business trips around the world. He collected a pair of this unusual jumper from one of the islands in the Krakatau volcanic archipelago, south of Sumatra.
The spider is rare in Singapore. Its male has extraordinarily long legs I, with well-developed femora, patellae and tibiae. Tibiae I and metatarsi I are armed with long and strong spines, but it is the thick brushes of long hair on patellae and tibiae I that immediately attract attention in the field. The shiny dark carapace is pockmarked with tiny tubercles, each carrying a stiff bristle. The abdomen is marked with two dark lateral lines.
| Length | ♀ 3–4 mm; ♂ 3–4 mm |
| Type Locality | Krakatau, Lampung, Indonesia |
| Distribution | Singapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia), Indonesia (Lampung), Vietnam, China, India, Japan, South Korea. |
| Habitat | Litter, foliage, rock face and roadside near wooded areas. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Bristowia heterospinosa (Original description ♂♀)
Reimoser, 1934a The spiders of Krakatau: 17, f. 1-3 doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1934.tb06215.x
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Prószyński, 1984a Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae): 14
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Żabka, 1985 Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam: 206, f. 54-59
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Seo, 1986 One unrecorded species of salticid spider from Korea (II): 24, f. 1-9
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Peng et al., 1993 Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae): 30, f. 50-57
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Ikeda, 1995c Two poorly known species of salticid spiders from Japan: 160, f. 1-14 doi:10.2476/asjaa.44.159
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Song & Li, 1997 Spiders of Wuling Mountains area: 431, f. 38A-D
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 506, f. 289L-M, 290C
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Namkung, 2002 The spiders of Korea: 586, f. 43.30a-c
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Cho & Kim, 2002 A revisional study of family Salticidae Blackwall, 1841 (Arachnida, Araneae) from Korea: 91, f. 5, 97-99, 211
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Namkung, 2003 The Spiders of Korea, 2nd: 590, f. 43.30a-c
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Szűts, 2004 A revision of the genus Bristowia (Araneae: Salticidae): 28, f. 5-7, 11, 14-15
Bristowia heterospinosa (♀)
Lee et al., 2004 Ground dwelling spiders: 99, unnumbered f.
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Ono, Ikeda & Kono, 2009 Salticidae: 574, f. 144-148
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 1333, f. 721a-h
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Kim & Lee, 2014 Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Salticidae, Segestriidae: 60, f. 43A-E
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Prószyński, 2017b Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae): 15, f. 4C doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Prószyński, 2018a Review of the genus Hasarius (Araneae: Salticidae) - a taxonomic fiasco: 26, f. 5I, 6C doi:10.37828/em.2018.16.2
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂♀)
Peng, 2020 Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: 49, f. 15a-h
Bristowia heterospinosa (♀)
Suzuki et al., 2023 Spiders (Araneae) collected from Kuchino-shima, Gaja-jima and Suwanosejima Islands, the Tokara Islands, Japan: 52, f. 9H-I
Bristowia heterospinosa (♂)
Suzuki & Hisasue, 2024b Spiders collected from Chichi-jima Island, the Ogasawara Islands, Japan between 2022 and 2024: 75, f. 6M, 7F
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Singapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia), Indonesia (Lampung), Vietnam, China, India, Japan, South Korea.