Clown-faced Jumper
The species name "sannio" means "making a face" or "looking like a fool" in Latin. It probably refers to the clownish look of the male "face" which bears a creamy white clypeus. While the male body and legs show a contrasting black-and-white pattern, the female is uniformly coloured with beige hairs, often with dark brown hairs on the sides of the carapace, and a fringe of darkly coloured hairs along the anterior edge of the abdomen. In some females, the dorsum has some dark spots arranged in a herring-bone pattern.
| Length | ♀ 4–9 mm; ♂ 4–5 mm |
| Type Locality | Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia |
| Distribution | South Asia, Singapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah), Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, South East Sulawesi), Brunei, Myanmar, Vietnam, China. |
| Habitat | Foliage in gardens and forest fringes. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Paratype
Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Narendrapur, Kolkata, India; 1♀ of Bianor piratus (Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020)
Plexippus sannio (Original description ♂)
Hasarius coronatus (misidentified per Thorell, 1895b: 391)
Hasarius virens (Original description ♀)
Thorell, 1891 Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien: 147
Hasarius sannio (♂♀)
Workman & Workman, 1894 Malaysian spiders: 16, f. 16 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.101972
Ergane sannio (Synonym of Hasarius virens)
Thorell, 1895b Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum: 391 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.17492
Eugasmia sannio
Simon, 1903a Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second: 708 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973
Carrhotus sannio (♂♀)
Prószyński, 1984a Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae): 16
Carrhotus sannio (♂♀)
Żabka, 1985 Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam: 207, f. 63-70
Carrhotus sannio (♂)
Prószyński, 1992b Salticidae (Araneae) of India in the collection of the Hungarian National Natural History Museum in Budapest: 168, f. 6
Carrhotus sannio (♂♀)
Peng et al., 1993 Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae): 35, f. 66-74
Carrhotus sannio (♂)
Jastrzebski, 1999 Salticidae from the Himalaya: The genus Carrhotus Thorell 1891 (Araneae, Salticidae): 3, f. 4-7
Carrhotus sannio (♂♀)
Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 507, f. 289Q, 290H, 324P
Carrhotus sannio (♀)
Ledoux, 2007 Araignées de l'île de La Réunion: II: 33, f. 35
Carrhotus sannio (♂♀)
Zhu & Zhang, 2011 Spider Fauna of Henan: Arachnida: Araneae: 476, f. 343A-E
Carrhotus sannio (♂♀)
Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 1337, f. 723a-i
Bianor piratus (Original description ♀)
Sen et al., 2015 Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary: 35, f. 97-101, pl. 13
Bianor piratus (♀)
Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017 Litter and ground dwelling spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars, West Bengal: 32, f. 58-62, pl. 16
Carrhotus sannio (m♀, Synonym of Bianor piratus)
Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020 New species and synonymies in the genus Carrhotus Thorell, 1891 from India (Aranei: Salticidae: Salticini): 58, f. 22-34 doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.04
Carrhotus sannio (♂♀)
Peng, 2020 Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: 56, f. 20a-i
Carrhotus sannio (♀)
Logunov, 2021d New species and records of the jumping spiders from India and Nepal (Aranei: Salticidae): 353, f. 5-7 doi:10.15298/arthsel.30.3.08
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
South Asia, Singapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah), Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, South East Sulawesi), Brunei, Myanmar, Vietnam, China.