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Salticidae Hasarius

Hasarius adansoni (Audouin, 1826)

Adanson’s House Jumper

Most Singaporeans are familiar with this spider which is frequently seen on walls inside or outside houses.

The male is easily recognised by the conspicuous white hairs covering their palps. There are two white spots on the dorsum and a crescent of white or pale coloured hairs on the carapace and in the front part of the abdomen.

The female has a crescent of pale brown hairs on the anterior edge of the dorsum, and paired dark patches posteriorly.

Length♀ 6–8 mm; ♂ 5–6 mm
DistributionWidespread, including India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Syria, Egypt, Fiji, Australia, South Korea, Japan, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore.
HabitatUsually on house walls, occasionally on tree trunks or vegetation some distance from buildings.
BiologyFeeds on mosquitoes and other small insects.

Taxonomy

Type Deposits*

  1. Holotype

    Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); ♂ (2476-141, 13400-141) of Evarcha longipalpis

  2. Holotype

    Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); ♀ (14383-141) of Jacobia brauni

  3. Holotype

    Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM), Budapest, Hungary; ♀ of Cyrba picturata (Prószyński, 1983b)

  4. Holotype

    Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland; ♂ (ARTO-0027901; presumably the holotype of a synonym or a neotype)

  5. Holotype

    Spider Research Laboratory, J. D. Patil Sangludkar Mahavidyalaya (SRL, JDPSM), Daryapur, Maharashtra, India; ♀ of Habrocestum chikhaldarense (Rao, Bodkhe & Kanaujia, 2025)

  6. Syntype

    Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 1♀ (A0002244) of Hasarius garetti

  7. Syntype

    Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); 1♂ (A0001620) of Jotus albocircumdatus

  8. Syntype

    Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019); 3♂ (1781–82) of Eris niveipalpis

  9. Syntype

    British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; of Salticus scabellatus (Prószyński, 1971e)

  10. Syntype

    Natural History Museum of Denmark (NHMD), Copenhagen = Zoological Museum of Natural History, University of Copenhagen (ZMUC), Denmark; 1♂ 1♀ of Ergane signata (Keyserling, 1890)

Taxonomic references*

  1. Attus tardigradus (Original description ♂; preoccupied by Walckenaer, 1802, see Marpissa muscosa)

    Audouin, 1826 Explication sommaire des planches d'arachnides de l'Égypte et de la Syrie. In: Savigny, M. J. C. L. de: "Description de l'Égypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée franҫ: 406, pl. 7, f. 13

  2. Attus adansonii (♂)

    Walckenaer, 1837 Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier: 427 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095

  3. Attus capito (Original description ♀)

    Lucas, 1838 Arachnides, Myriapodes et Thysanoures: 27, pl. 7, f. 8

  4. Salticus oraniensis (Original description ♂)

    Lucas, 1846 Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés: 144, pl. 5, f. 8 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.112444

  5. Salticus striatus (Original description ♀)

    Lucas, 1853 Essai sur les animaux articules qui habitent l'ile de Crete: 521

  6. Salticus ruficapillus (Original description )

    Doleschall, 1859 Tweede Bijdrage tot de kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel: 13

  7. Salticus citus (Original description j)

    O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1863 Description of twenty-four new species of spiders lately discoverd in Dorsetshire and Hampshire; together with a list of rare and some other hitherto unrecorded British spiders: 8561

  8. Attus nigro-fuscus (Original description ♀)

    Vinson, 1863 Aranéides des îles de La Réunion, Maurice et Madagascar: 59, 302, pl. 10, f. 8 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.125517

  9. Plexippa nigrofusca

    Simon, 1864 Histoire naturelle des araignées (aranéides): 326 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.47654

  10. Plexippus adansoni (♂♀)

    Simon, 1868b Monographie des espèces européennes de la famille des Attides (Attidae Sundewall: 644, pl. 2, f. 12, pl. 3, f. 3

  11. Hasarius adansoni (108)

    Simon, 1871a Révision des Attidae européens: 330

  12. Eris niveipalpis (Original description ♂)

    Gerstaecker, 1873 Arachnoidea: 477 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.10149

  13. Hasarius adansoni

    Simon, 1876a Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième: 79

  14. Salticus scabellatus (Original description ♀)

    Butler, 1876b Preliminary notice of new species of Arachnida and Myriopoda from Rodriguez, collected by Messrs: 441 doi:10.1080/00222937608681989

  15. Plexippus ardelio (Original description ♂)

    Thorell, 1877b Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani: 603

  16. Salticus scabellatus (♀)

    Butler, 1878a Myriopoda and Arachnida: 507, pl. 52, f. 9

  17. Hasarius citus (♂)

    O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1878a Notes on British spiders with descriptions of new species: 127 doi:10.1080/00222937808682302

  18. Euophrys nigriceps (Original description ♂♀)

    Taczanowski, 1878a Les Aranéides du Pérou: 288

  19. Jotus albocircumdatus (Original description ♂)

    L. Koch, 1881a Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 27]: 1250, pl. 107, f. 4 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660

  20. Hasarius adansoni

    O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881a The spiders of Dorset, with an appendix containing short descriptions of those British species not yet found in Dorsetshire: 566

  21. Hasarius garetti (Original description ♀)

    Keyserling, 1881a Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 28]: 1289, pl. 110, f. 4 doi:bhl.title.121660

  22. Hasarius adansoni

    Peckham & Peckham, 1886 Genera of the family Attidae: with a partial synonymy: 312

  23. Hasarius adansoni (Synonym of Eris niveipalpis, Plexippus ardelio and Salticus citus)

    Thorell, 1887 Viaggio di L: 404

  24. Ergane signata (Original description ♂♀)

    Keyserling, 1890 Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Zweiter Theil [Lieferung 37]: 263, pl. 24, f. 5-6 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.121660

  25. Hasarius adansonii (Synonym of Attus capito, A. forskaeli, A. tardigradus Audouin, Plexippus nigrofuscus and Salticus striatus)

    Thorell, 1892a Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani: 426

  26. Hasarius adansoni (♀)

    Peckham & Peckham, 1896 Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico: 56, pl. 5, f. 1

  27. Cyrba picturata (Original description j)

    Karsch, in Lendl, 1898 Myriapoden und Arachnoiden: 561, f. 8

  28. Hasarius adansoni (Synonym of Salticus ruficapillus and S. scabellatus)

    Simon, 1900a Arachnida: 511

  29. Cyrene fusca (Original description ♀)

    F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones: 238, pl. 20, f. 6

  30. Hasarius albocircumdatus

    Simon, 1903a Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second: 795 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973

  31. Sidusa borealis (Original description ♂)

    Banks, 1904a New genera and species of Nearctic spiders: 116, f. 18

  32. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Dönitz & Strand, in Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 Japanische Spinnen: 367, pl. 9, f. 134, pl. 14, f. 371

  33. Sidusa borealis (♂)

    Peckham & Peckham, 1909 Revision of the Attidae of North America: 593, pl. 47, f. 10

  34. Phiale fusca

    Petrunkevitch, 1911 A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc: 690

  35. Hasarius adansoni

    Strand, 1918 Zur Kenntnis japanischer Spinnen, I und II: 109

  36. Tachyskarthmos annamensis (Original description ♂)

    Hogg, 1922 Some spiders from south Annam: 310 doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1922.tb02142.x

  37. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Berland, 1932b Les Arachnides (Scorpions, Araignées, etc: 400, f. 578-581

  38. Sidusa borealis (Original description ♀)

    Muma, 1944 A report on Maryland spiders: 12

  39. Nebridia borealis (♂, D♀)

    Kaston, 1945a New spiders in the group Dionycha with notes on other species: 16, f. 77-79

  40. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀, Synonym of Nebridia borealis)

    Kaston, 1948 Spiders of Connecticut: 493, f. 1816, 1851-1852

  41. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Locket & Millidge, 1951 British spiders. Vol. I: 242, f. 115A, C

  42. Hasarius adansoni (♀)

    Wild, 1955 Observations on rare British spiders and some new county records: 394, f. 1 doi:10.1080/00222935508655656

  43. Hasarius adansonii (Synonym of Salticus acutus; revalidated by Saaristo, 1978: 109)

    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): 997

  44. Jacobia brauni (Original description ♀)

    Schmidt, 1956e Zur Fauna der durch canarische Bananen eingeschleppten Spinnen mit Beschreibungen neuer Arten: 150, f. 7-8

  45. Vitia albipalpis (Original description ♂)

    Marples, 1957 Spiders from some Pacific islands, II: 390, f. 2a-b

  46. Hasarius adansoni (♂)

    Miller, 1971 Pavouci-Araneida: 138, pl. XX, f. 10

  47. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Brændegaard, 1972 Edderkopper eller spindlere II: 207, f. 125-127

  48. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀, Synonym of Jacobia brauni)

    Clark & Benoit, 1977 Fam: 102, f. 45a-c

  49. Hasarius albocircumdatus (Original description ♀)

    Saaristo, 1978 Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the Seychelle islands, with notes on taxonomy: 111, f. 106-108

  50. Hasarius adansoni (♀)

    Dziabaszewski, 1978 Z badań nad pajakami wielkopolski: 81, f. 1-3

  51. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Yin & Wang, 1979 [A classification of the jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) collected from the agricultural fields and other habitats: 30, f. 8A-E

  52. Hasarius adansoni (Synonym of Euophrys nigriceps)

    Galiano, 1979c Nuevos sinonimos en la familia Salticidae (Araneae): 33

  53. Hasarius adansoni (Synonym of Phiale fusca)

    Galiano, 1981f Algunos nuevos sinonimos en Salticidae (Araneae): 283

  54. Cyrba picturata (♀)

    Prószyński, 1983b Redescriptions of types of Oriental and Australian Salticidae (Aranea) in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest: 283, f. 1-2

  55. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Hu, 1984 The Chinese spiders collected from the fields and the forests: 363, f. 378.1-5

  56. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀, Synonym of Evarcha longipalpis and Tachyskarthmos annamensis)

    Prószyński, 1984a Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae): 58, 107, 170, 172

  57. Hasarius adansoni (Synonym of Cyrba picturata)

    Wanless, 1984b A revision of the spider genus Cyrba (Araneae: Salticidae) with the description of a new presumptive pheromone dispersing organ: 471 doi:10.5962/p.21842

  58. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Wanless, 1984c Araneae-Salticidae: 49, f. 16a-d

  59. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀, Synonym of Tachyskarthmos annamensis confirmed)

    Żabka, 1985 Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam: 226, f. 199-207

  60. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Yaginuma, 1986a Spiders of Japan in color (new ed: 222, f. 123.3

  61. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Davies & Żabka, 1989 Illustrated keys to the genera of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia: 220, pl. 28

  62. Hasarius adansoni (♀)

    Wesołowska, 1989b Notes on the Salticidae (Aranei) of the Cape Verde Islands: 267, f. 11-13

  63. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Chikuni, 1989b Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan: 154, f. 36

  64. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Feng, 1990 Spiders of China in colour: 206, f. 181.1-7

  65. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Chen & Gao, 1990 The Sichuan farmland spiders in China: 183, f. 233a-c

  66. Hasarius adansoni (Synonym of Vitioides albipalpis)

    Prószyński, 1990 Catalogue of Salticidae (Araneae): synthesis of quotations in the world literature since 1940, with basic taxonomic data since 1758: 359

  67. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Heimer & Nentwig, 1991 Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch: 504, f. 1345

  68. Hasarius adansoni (Synonym of Hasarius albocircumdatus)

    Żabka, 1991c Studium taksonomiczno-zoogeograficzne nad Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) Australii: 29

  69. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Peng et al., 1993 Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae): 85, f. 264-272

  70. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Zhao, 1993 Spiders in the cotton fields in China: 396, f. 199a-c

  71. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Barrion & Litsinger, 1994 Taxonomy of rice insect pests and their arthropod parasites and predators: 288, f. 1447-1449

  72. Hasarius adansoni (♂)

    Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia: 92, f. 48a-l

  73. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Zhao, 1995 Araneida: 1113, f. 540a-c

  74. Hasarius adansoni (♂)

    Kim & Kim, 1996a One unrecorded genus Hasarius and species (Araneae: Salticidae) from Korea: 16, f. 1-6

  75. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Żabka, 1997 Salticidae: Pająki skaczące (Arachnida: Araneae): 53, f. 125-131

  76. Hasarius adansoni (♀)

    Song, Chen & Zhu, 1997 Arachnida: Araneae: 1735, f. 45a-c

  77. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Metzner, 1999 Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands: 153, f. 118a-j

  78. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 513, f. 299G, N, 326F-G

  79. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Namkung, 2002 The spiders of Korea: 583, f. 43.27a-b

  80. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Cho & Kim, 2002 A revisional study of family Salticidae Blackwall, 1841 (Arachnida, Araneae) from Korea: 98, f. 19-20, 118-119, 225-226

  81. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Prószyński, 2003 Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant: 68, f. 256-260

  82. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Namkung, 2003 The Spiders of Korea, 2nd: 589, f. 43.29a-b

  83. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Trotta, 2005 Introduzione al ragni italiani (Arachnida Araneae): 171, f. 386-387 doi:10.4081/memorieSEI.2004.3

  84. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Ledoux, 2007 Araignées de l'île de La Réunion: II: 24, f. 20A-B, 21

  85. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Wunderlich, 2008f Identification key to the European genera of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae): 714, f. 25-26, 26a

  86. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Ono, Ikeda & Kono, 2009 Salticidae: 567, f. 66-68

  87. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 Description of some Salticidae (Araneae) from the Malay Archipelago: 168, f. 79-84 doi:10.15298/arthsel.19.3.05

  88. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Saaristo, 2010 Araneae: 182, f. 27.43-46

  89. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 1377, f. 748a-i

  90. Hasarius adansoni (♂)

    Brisson & Simard, 2013 Première mention du saltique d’Adanson, Hasarius adansoni (Savigny et Audouin, 1825) (Araneae: Salticidae: Hasariinae), au Canada: 41, f. 2-11 doi:10.7202/1015514ar

  91. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Kim & Lee, 2014 Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Salticidae, Segestriidae: 73, f. 52A-E

  92. Hasarius adansoni (♀)

    Milasowszky et al., 2015 Erstnachweise von Spinnen in Österreich (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Linyphiidae, Lycosidae, Philodromidae, Theridiidae, Titanoecidae, Salticidae): 298, f. 2a-b

  93. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Baba & Tanikawa, 2015 The handbook of spiders: 102, 4 f.

  94. Hasarius (♀)

    Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016 A treatise on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of tea ecosystem of Dooars, West Bengal, India: 11, f. 9A-E, 24G, 27E

  95. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Šestáková et al., 2017 Arachnids from the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of the PJ Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones): 21, f. 4a-b, 5a-b, 6a-c, 7 doi:10.5431/aramit5304

  96. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Prószyński, 2017b Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae): 15, f. 4E, 5G doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1

  97. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Prószyński, 2018a Review of the genus Hasarius (Araneae: Salticidae) - a taxonomic fiasco: 18, f. 1A-N, 2A-H,J,L, 3L-M, 4E, 5A-B, 6A-B doi:10.37828/em.2018.16.2

  98. Hasarius adansoni (♂)

    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): 159, f. 17F doi:10.37828/em.2018.16.12

  99. Hasarius adansoni (♂)

    Chen, Lin & Ueng, 2021 Three new species and six newly recorded species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Taiwan: 292, f. 4A-D doi:10.4236/nr.2021.129021

  100. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Taucare-Ríos & Rubio, 2021 Familia Salticidae: 232, f. 4A-B, 5A-B

  101. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Pupin & Brescovit, 2023 The alien synanthropic Salticidae in Brazil (Araneae): 8, f. 19-24 doi:10.1590/1678-4766e2023002

  102. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Baert et al., 2023 Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands: 24, f. 82A-D

  103. Hasarius adansoni (♂)

    Alcántar-Valenzuela et al., 2024 Current knowledge of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Sinaloa, Mexico: species checklist and new records, including the first record of Plexippus petersi Karsch, 1878 for America: 14, f. 22-24 doi:10.21829/azm.2024.4012671

  104. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Robin-Havret et al., 2024a État des lieux de la présence d’Hasarius adansoni (Savigny & Audouin, 1826) en France métropolitaine: 17, f. 1A-F, 2, 4A-B

  105. Habrocestum chikhaldarensis (Original description ♀)

    Rao, Bodkhe & Kanaujia, 2025 Description of a new species of the genus Habrocestum Simon, 1876 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Chikhaldara, Maharashtra, India: 423, f. 1-4

  106. Hasarius adansoni (Synonym of Habrocestum chikhaldarense)

    Caleb, 2025 On a new synonym of Hasarius adansoni (Audouin, 1826) (Araneae, Salticidae) from India: 1

  107. Hasarius adansoni (♂♀)

    Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 2 (E-Ha). Version 1: 62, p. 67: f. 1-2, p. 68: f. 1-8 doi:10.5281/zenodo.15266589

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Hasarius adansoni (Audouin, 1826)

Widespread, including India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Syria, Egypt, Fiji, Australia, South Korea, Japan, China, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore.

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