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Salticidae Thiania

Thiania bhamoensis Thorell, 1887

Common Fighting Spider

The body and legs have characteristic blueish green iridescent scales, with those on the dorsum typically arranged in two backward-arching rows. As in the unnamed Thiania species on the previous page, the male palps are covered with black hairs. However, in T. bhamoensis, the clypeus of the male is more densely covered with long white hairs.

Length♀ 6–7 mm; ♂ 5–6 mm
Type LocalityBhamo, Kachin, Myanmar
DistributionWidespread, including Singapore, Malaysia (Penang, Sarawak), Indonesia (Sumatra, Bali), Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, China, India.
HabitatFoliage in gardens, roadside hedges, and understorey within disturbed forests.
BiologyThis species is not a free-ranging hunter, but tends to remain in wait near or in the nest for potential prey to stray within leaping distance. Males threaten each other by raising the body, flexing the abdomen, spreading and jerking legs I, and may "fight" by grappling with and pushing each other. Females also fight each other, but the combat does not show the same degree of vigour as in the male-to-male fray. As in T. latefasciata. the spider builds a nest by binding two leaves together with strong rivets of silk, perpendicular to the leaf surfaces.

Taxonomy

Taxonomic references*

  1. Thiania bhamoensis (Original description ♂♀)

    Thorell, 1887 Viaggio di L: 357

  2. Marptusa oppressa (Original description ♂♀)

    Thorell, 1891 Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien: 114

  3. Thiania oppressa

    Simon, 1901a Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second: 588 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973

  4. Euophrys chiriatapuensis (Original description ♀)

    Tikader, 1977a Studies on spider fauna of Andaman and Nicobar islands, Indian Ocean: 206, f. 26A-B

  5. Euophrys chiriatapuensis (♀)

    Tikader & Biswas, 1981 Spider fauna of Calcutta and vicinity: Part-I: 101, f. 183-184

  6. Thiania bhamoensis (♂)

    Prószyński, 1983b Redescriptions of types of Oriental and Australian Salticidae (Aranea) in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest: 284, f. 5-6

  7. Thiania bhamoensis (♂♀)

    Prószyński, 1984a Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae): 144

  8. Thiania bhamoensis (♂♀, Synonym of Thiania oppressa)

    Żabka, 1985 Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam: 452, f. 616-624

  9. Thiania bhamoensis (♂♀)

    Peng et al., 1993 Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae): 238, f. 848-854

  10. Thiania bhamoensis (♂♀)

    Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 562, f. 320K, 322B, 330E

  11. Thiania bhamoensis (♂♀)

    Davis et al., 2005 New record of the salticid spider Thiania bhamoensis Thorell (Araneae: Salticidae) from Kerala, India with its redescription and field notes on behavior: 245, f. 1a-h, 2i-m, 3n-o

  12. Thiania bhamoensis (♂♀, Synonym of Euophrys chiriatapuensis)

    Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 Description of some Salticidae (Araneae) from the Malay Archipelago: 181, f. 142-147 doi:10.15298/arthsel.19.3.05

  13. Thiania bhamoensis (♀)

    Chotwong & Tanikawa, 2013 Four spider species of the families Theridiidae, Araneidae, and Salticidae (Arachnida; Araneae) new to Thailand: 4, f. 6, 14 doi:10.2476/asjaa.62.1

  14. Thiania bhamoensis (♂♀)

    Zhang & Maddison, 2015 Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny: 82, f. 566-572, 888 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1

  15. Thiania bhamoensis (♀)

    Sen et al., 2015 Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary: 37, f. 112-116, pl. 13

  16. Thiania bhamoensis (♀)

    Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016 A treatise on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of tea ecosystem of Dooars, West Bengal, India: 9, f. 7A-E, 24E, 27C

  17. Thiania bhamoensis (♂♀)

    Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017 Litter and ground dwelling spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars, West Bengal: 35, f. 78-85, pl. 18

  18. Thiania bhamoensis (♂♀)

    Prószyński, 2017b Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae): 86, f. 38E, 39S doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1

  19. Thiania bhamoensis (♂♀)

    Tyagi et al., 2019 Identification of Indian spiders through DNA barcoding: cryptic species and species complex: Supplement, f. S2.60, S3.11-14 doi:10.1038/s41598-019-50510-8

  20. Thiania bhamoensis (♂♀)

    Peng, 2020 Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: 476, f. 349a-g

  21. Thiania bhamoensis (♂♀)

    Yu et al., 2021c [Redescription of four species of the tribe Euophryini from southern China (Araneae: Salticidae)]: 134, f. 3A-D, 4A-F doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2021.02.10

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Thiania bhamoensis Thorell, 1887

Widespread, including Singapore, Malaysia (Penang, Sarawak), Indonesia (Sumatra, Bali), Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, China, India.

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