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Salticidae Carrhotus

Carrhotus viduus (C. L. Koch, 1846)

Double-striped Black-and-white Jumper

The overall colour of the male is black. Its carapace is marked by two bands of white hairs in an almost V-shaped formation. The abdomen is bracketed laterally by a pair of similar bands.

The carapace of the yellowish-brown female is covered by two posteriorly converging bands of light-coloured hairs. The abdominal colouration may vary with individuals: some may be predominantly yellow while others show an elaborate pattern of black, white and brown.

Length♀ 6–9 mm; ♂ 5–8 mm
Type LocalityBintan, Riau, Indonesia
DistributionSouth Asia, Singapore, Malaysia (Penang), Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Riau), Brunei, Myanmar, Laos, China, Japan.
HabitatMales and females are often found together among vegetation in gardens and open wooded areas.

Taxonomy

Type Deposits*

  1. Holotype

    National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♀ of Marpissa decorata (Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020)

  2. Holotype

    National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♀ of Marpissa tikaderi (Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020)

  3. Holotype

    National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♀ of Marpissa lakshmikantapurensis (Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020)

  4. Paratype

    National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 1♀ of Marpissa decorata (Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020)

  5. Syntype

    Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany; 2♂ (1699) (Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2022)

Taxonomic references*

  1. Plexippus viduus (Original description ♂)

    C. L. Koch, 1846 Die Arachniden: 104, f. 1166 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744

  2. Attus viduus

    Walckenaer, 1847a Dernier Supplément: 426 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095

  3. Mogrus ornatus (Original description ♀)

    Simon, 1886c Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale: 439

  4. Carrhotus viduus

    Thorell, 1891 Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien: 142

  5. Plexippus cumulatus (Original description ♀)

    Karsch, 1892 Arachniden von Ceylon und von Minikoy gesammelt von den Herren Doctoren P: 301, pl. 12, f. 28

  6. Carrhotus viduus (♂)

    Workman & Workman, 1894 Malaysian spiders: 14, f. 14 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.101972

  7. Carrhotus viduus (S of Plexippus albolineatus [revalidated by Prószyński, 2009b: 157] and P. cumulatus)

    Thorell, 1895b Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum: 378 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.17492

  8. Carrhotus viduus (♂, Synonym of Hyllus morgani)

    Simon, 1903a Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second: 701, 707, f. 827-828 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973

  9. Carrhotus viduus

    Pocock, 1904 Arachnida: 804, pl

  10. Marpissa decorata (Original description ♀)

    Tikader, 1974b Studies on some jumping spiders of the genus Marpissa from India (family-Salticidae): 206, f. 4-6

  11. Carrhotus viduus (♂♀, Synonym of Mogrus ornatus)

    Andreeva, Kononenko & Prószyński, 1981 Remarks on genus Mogrus Simon, 1882 (Aranei, Salticidae): 103, f. 39-42

  12. Marpissa decorata (♀)

    Tikader & Biswas, 1981 Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I: 94, f. 171-172

  13. Carrhotus viduus (♂)

    Prószyński, 1984a Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae): 16

  14. Marpissa tikaderi (Original description ♀)

    Biswas, 1984a Description of six new species of spiders of the families Clubionidae, Gnaphosidae and Salticidae from India: 125, f. 14-16

  15. Carrhotus viduus (♂♀)

    Song & Chai, 1991 New species and new records of the family Salticidae from Hainan, China (Arachnida: Araneae): 13, f. 1A-D

  16. Carrhotus viduus (♂)

    Prószyński, 1992b Salticidae (Araneae) of India in the collection of the Hungarian National Natural History Museum in Budapest: 169, f. 7

  17. Carrhotus viduus (♂♀)

    Peng et al., 1993 Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae): 36, f. 75-83

  18. Carrhotus viduus (♂)

    Jastrzebski, 1999 Salticidae from the Himalaya: The genus Carrhotus Thorell 1891 (Araneae, Salticidae): 4, f. 8-11

  19. Carrhotus viduus (♂♀)

    Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 507, f. 290I-J, 291A-B, 324Q

  20. Marpissa lakshmikantapurensis (Original description ♀)

    Majumder, 2004c Taxonomic studies of some spiders from mangrove and semi-mangrove areas of Sundarban: 32, f. 11-15

  21. Carrhotus viduus (♂♀)

    Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 Description of some Salticidae (Araneae) from the Malay Archipelago: 157, f. 25, 29 doi:10.15298/arthsel.19.3.05

  22. Carrhotus viduus (♂♀)

    Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 1339, f. 724a-i

  23. Plexippus gajbei (Original description ♀)

    Karthikeyani & Kannan, 2013 A new Plexippus spider from the western Ghats, Kumbakarai Falls, Theni District, Tamil Nadu, south India (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae): 43, f. 1a-c, images 1-2

  24. Marpissa decorata (♀)

    Sen et al., 2015 Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary: 34, f. 92-96, pl. 13

  25. Carrhotus viduus (♀)

    Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016 A treatise on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of tea ecosystem of Dooars, West Bengal, India: 18, f. 14A-E, 25C, 27J

  26. Carrhotus viduus (m♀, Synonym of Plexippus gajbei)

    Caleb, 2016b New data on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from India: 273, f. 1-5 doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.3.06

  27. Marpissa decorata (♀)

    Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017 Litter and ground dwelling spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars, West Bengal: 31, f. 48-52, pl. 17

  28. Carrhotus viduus (♂)

    Prószyński, 2017b Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae): 15, f. 4D doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1

  29. Carrhotus viduus (♂)

    Prószyński, 2018a Review of the genus Hasarius (Araneae: Salticidae) - a taxonomic fiasco: 26, f. 5J doi:10.37828/em.2018.16.2

  30. Carrhotus viduus (♂♀, Synonym of Marpissa decorata, M. lakshmikantapurensis and M. tikaderi)

    Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020 New species and synonymies in the genus Carrhotus Thorell, 1891 from India (Aranei: Salticidae: Salticini): 61, f. 57-73, 76-78, 80-82 doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.04

  31. Carrhotus viduus (♂♀)

    Peng, 2020 Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: 57, f. 21a-i

  32. Marpissa decorata (♀)

    Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2022 Taxonomic account of jumping spiders – genus Marpissa C: 7, f. 4a-e, 5d doi:10.3329/jbcbm.v7i1.57118

  33. Carrhotus viduus (♂♀)

    Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2022 Phylogenetic placement of Carrhotus Thorell, 1891 with three new species from Sri Lanka (Araneae: Salticidae): 102, f. 2C-D, 15A-G, 16A-D doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.817.1765

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Carrhotus viduus (C. L. Koch, 1846)

South Asia, Singapore, Malaysia (Penang), Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Riau), Brunei, Myanmar, Laos, China, Japan.

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