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Salticidae Parabathippus

Parabathippus shelfordi (Peckham & Peckham, 1902)

Common Divergent Jaw Jumper

This is the most common species of Parabathippus in Singapore. It is provisionally placed under P. shelfordi described from Sarawak. Unlike P. shelfordi specimens from Borneo, the Singapore male does not have patches of white hairs under the median and lateral eyes, or a streak of white hairs between the AME. DNA analysis should be able to verify if the Singapore species is distinct, or just a variant of P. shelfordi.

While the male has a metallic purple abdomen, the female has a golden abdomen with converging lines anteriorly and two to three pairs of black spots posteriorly.

Length♀ 7–8 mm; ♂ 7–8 mm
DistributionSingapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak), Brunei.
HabitatVegetation in primary and secondary forests.
BiologyThe mothers are often seen guarding their egg clutches, each usually with 20–30 eggs fastened with a few strands of silk, on the underside of leaves.

Taxonomy

Taxonomic references*

  1. Bathippus serenus (Original description ♀)

    Peckham & Peckham, 1907 The Attidae of Borneo: 623

  2. Bathippus shelfordi (mf, Synonym of Bathippus serenus)

    Żabka, 1988 Salticidae (Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, III: 431, f. 22-28

  3. Parabathippus shelfordi (Transferred from Bathippus)

    Zhang & Maddison, 2012d New euophryine jumping spiders from Southeast Asia and Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae): 64 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3581.1.2

  4. Parabathippus shelfordi (♂♀)

    Zhang & Maddison, 2013 Molecular phylogeny, divergence times and biogeography of spiders of the subfamily Euophryinae (Araneae: Salticidae): 89, f. 4A-B doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.03.017

  5. Parabathippus shelfordi (♂♀)

    Zhang & Maddison, 2015 Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny: 74, f. 445-452, 652, 854-855 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Parabathippus shelfordi (Peckham & Peckham, 1902)

Singapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak), Brunei.

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