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Salticidae Orientattus

Orientattus minutus (Zabka, 1985)

Miniature Big-headed Jumper

The female can be instantly recognised from the striking orange setae around the eyes and from its unique and intricate brown-and-white pattern on the carapace and abdomen. The male is also easily identifiable from a combination of characters: striped legs, a single white spot within the ocular area, an arch of white setae below the eyes bracketing the carapace, and other patches of white setae on the abdomen, including a squarish pair in the mid-section of the dorsum.

Length♀ 4 mm; ♂ 4 mm
Type Locality"Chine" (near Hanoi), Vietnam
DistributionSingapore, Vietnam.
HabitatBushes in sunny forest fringes.

Taxonomy

Taxonomic references*

  1. Pancorius minutus (Original description ♀)

    Żabka, 1985 Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam: 424, f. 401-402

  2. Pancorius minutus (♀)

    Żabka, 1990b Salticidae from the Nepal and Bhutan Himalayas: 170, f. 19-21

  3. Pancorius minutus (♀)

    Song & Chai, 1991 New species and new records of the family Salticidae from Hainan, China (Arachnida: Araneae): 21, f. 11A-D

  4. Pancorius minutus (♀)

    Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 537, f. 306E

  5. Orienattus minutus (♀)

    Peng, 2020 Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: 274, f. 194a-c

  6. Orientattus minutus (Transferred from Pancorius, record from Nepal probably belongs to Orientattus aurantius)

    Caleb, 2020a A new jumping spider genus from South and Southeast Asia (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippini: Orientattus): 4

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Orientattus minutus (Zabka, 1985)

Singapore, Vietnam.

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