Orange Painted Face Jumper
Both sexes have a V-shaped pattern on the carapace but with different colours. In the case of the female, it is orange. The female abdomen has a characteristic longitudinal white band with saw-like edges towards its posterior.
| Length | ♀ 6–7; ♂ 6–7 mm |
| Type Locality | Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia |
| Distribution | South Asia, Singapore, Malaysia (Johor, Sarawak), Indonesia (South Sulawesi), Brunei, 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)
Holotype
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); ♂ (2999)
Holotype
National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♀ of Marpissa kalapani (Caleb et al., 2021)
Plexippus calcaratus (Original description ♂)
Goajara crassipes (Original description ♂)
Plexippus calcaratus (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)
Roewer, 1955c Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex): 1634
Marpissa kalapani (Original description ♀)
Tikader, 1977a Studies on spider fauna of Andaman and Nicobar islands, Indian Ocean: 200, f. 23A-B
Epocilla rufa (Original description ♂♀)
Wesołowska, 1981a Salticidae (Aranei) from North Korea, China and Mongolia: 52, f. 22-31
Epocilla calcarata (mf, Transferred from Plexippus, Synonym of Epocilla rufa and Goajara crassipes)
Żabka, 1985 Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam: 217, f. 132-148
Epocilla calcarata (♂♀)
Feng, 1990 Spiders of China in colour: 218, f. 193.1-6
Epocilla calcarata (♂)
Chen & Zhang, 1991 Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida: 315, f. 335.1-6
Epocilla calcarata (♂♀)
Peng et al., 1993 Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae): 51, f. 129-137
Epocilla calcarata (♂♀)
Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 509, f. 292H-I, 325D-E
Epocilla calcarata (♂♀)
Saaristo, 2002 New species and interesting new records of spiders from Seychelles (Arachnida, Araneaea [sic]): 25, f. 70-75
Epocilla calcarata (♂♀)
Saaristo, 2010 Araneae: 181, f. 27.31-36
Epocilla calcarata (♂♀)
Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 1354, f. 733a-i
Epocilla calcarata (♂♀)
Peng, 2020 Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: 98, f. 53a-i
Epocilla calcarata (♀, Synonym of Marpissa kalapani)
Caleb et al., 2021 Taxonomic notes on two jumping spider species of the genus Epocilla Thorell, 1887 (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from India and Pakistan: 227, f. 30-34 doi:10.15298/arthsel.30.2.09
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
South Asia, Singapore, Malaysia (Johor, Sarawak), Indonesia (South Sulawesi), Brunei, Vietnam, China.