Horned Grass Jumper
The female cephalothorax has a pair of "horns" made up of protruding bristles near the first eye row, as in Hyllus. In addition, there are stiff and erect white bristles on the cephalic region. The abdomen has the characteristic pattern as shown below.
The male is black with narrow belts of white hairs fringing the carapace anteriorly and laterally. Longitudinal bands of white hairs run dorsally and along the sides of the abdomen.
| Length | ♀ 6–7 mm; ♂ 5–6 mm |
| Distribution | Singapore, Brunei, China. |
| Habitat | They live among grasses and other low vegetation in open fields, often hiding inside a silken cell, or under a silken roof on a blade of grass. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Evarcha bulbosa (Original description ♂)
Żabka, 1985 Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam: 222, f. 173-175
Evarcha bulbosa (♂)
Peng, 1989 New records of Salticidae from China (Arachnida, Araneae): 159, f. 6A-C
Evarcha bulbosa (♂)
Zhang, Song & Zhu, 1992 Notes on a new and eight newly recorded species of jumping spiders in Guangxi, China (Araneae: Salticidae): 1, f. 1.1-3
Evarcha bulbosa (♂)
Peng et al., 1993 Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae): 64, f. 175-178
Evarcha bulbosa (♂)
Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 510, f. 293J-K, 325L
Evarcha bulbosa (♂)
Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 1359, f. 736a-d
Evacin bulbosa (♂)
Prószyński, 2018b Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae): 142, f. 6K doi:10.37828/em.2018.16.12
Evarcha bulbosa (♂)
Peng, 2020 Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: 123, f. 75a-d
Evarcha bulbosa (♂)
Chen, Lin & Ueng, 2021 Three new species and six newly recorded species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Taiwan: 301, f. 14A-B, 15A-E doi:10.4236/nr.2021.129021
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Singapore, Brunei, China.