Javan Lynx Spider
Although the male appears similar to O. birmanicus and O. lineatipes. it is easily identified in the field as the tibia of each of its palps has a characteristic black, sinuate (crooked or curvy) and elongated process. Under a microscope, the female copulatory organ is also distinctive with a thick V-shape structure (not shown here).
| Length | ♀ 9 mm; ♂ 7 mm |
| Distribution | Singapore, Malaysia (Penang), Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Brunei, Myanmar, Philippines, Bangladesh, India. |
| Habitat | Herbage and shrubbery along roadside and open parkland. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Oxyopes lineatipes (misidentified per Thorell, 1891: 71)
Simon, 1886c Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale: 441
Oxyopes javanus (Original description ♀)
Oxyopes javanus (Original description ♀)
Thorell, 1891 Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien: 71
Oxyopes javanus (Original description ♂)
Oxyopes javanus (♂)
Workman, 1896 Malaysian spiders: 99, pl. 99 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.101972
Oxyopes javanus nicobaricus (Original description ♀)
Strand, 1907m Spinnen des Zoologischen Instituts in Tübingen: 447
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Sherriffs, 1951 Some oriental spiders of the genus Oxyopes: 659, f. 14-19 doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1951.tb00670.x
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Okuma, 1968b Preliminary survey on the spider-fauna of the paddy fields in Thailand: 106, f. 10A-B
Oxyopes hotingchiehi (♂♀; misidentified)
Hu, 1980 [On some common species of the genus Oxyopes from China]: 68, f. III.1-6
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Song, 1980 [Farm Spiders]: 181, f. 99a-e
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Tikader & Biswas, 1981 Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I: 62, f. 100-101
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Song, 1987 Spiders from agricultural regions of China (Arachnida: Araneae): 249, f. 203
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Barrion, Amalin & Casal, 1989 Morphology and cytology of the lynx spider Oxyopes javanus (Thorell): 229, f. 1a-f, 2a-e
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Chen & Gao, 1990 The Sichuan farmland spiders in China: 140, f. 175a-b
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Okuma et al., 1993 Illustrated Monograph of the Rice Field Spiders of Bangladesh. Institute of Postgraduate Studies in Agriculture (Salna, Gazipur, Bangladesh): 55, f. 49A-B
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Barrion & Litsinger, 1994 Taxonomy of rice insect pests and their arthropod parasites and predators: 299, f. 1537-1538
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia: 326, f. 193a-c, 194a-s
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 399, f. 233Q-R, 236F
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Gajbe, 2008c Fauna of India and the adjacent countries: Spider (Arachnida: Araneae: Oxyopidae): 54, f. 110-113
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Yin et al., 2012 Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China: 912, f. 461a-d
Oxyopes javanus (♂)
Sen et al., 2015 Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary: 76, f. 423-428, pl. 18
Oxyopes javanus (♂♀)
Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2015 Lynx spiders of Khulna District of Bangladesh: genus Oxyopes Latreille (Areaneae[sic]: Oxyopidae): 225, f. 2a-g doi:10.3329/bjz.v43i2.27394
Oxyopes javanus (♂)
Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017 Litter and ground dwelling spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars, West Bengal: 65, f. 290-295, pl. 22
Oxyopes javanus (Synonym of Oxyopes javanus nicobaricus)
Nentwig et al., 2019 Tackling taxonomic redundancy in spiders: the infraspecific spider taxa described by Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae): 41 doi:10.30963/aramit5809
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Singapore, Malaysia (Penang), Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Brunei, Myanmar, Philippines, Bangladesh, India.