Bathippus

Bathippus is a genus of jumping spiders.

Bathippus
Head of a male B. montrouzieri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Bathippus Thorell, 1892
Type species
Plexippus macrognathus Thorell, 1881
Species
See text

This genus is very similar to the genus Canama.

Members of this genus are distributed throughout the Australasian region.

The genus name is derived from Βάθιππος, a Greek name.

Description

Females are 6 to 9 mm long, males up to 10 mm. Bathippus is a colorful, long-legged genus, with long, thin bodies. The males have long, robust, forward-pointing chelicerae. The colors differ between species, but the carapace is in most species orange, sometimes with lighter stripes. The opisthosoma is grey, sometimes with three or four pairs of dark grey marks. The legs are orange, with the latter two pairs lighter than those in front.

Habits

Bathippus species are often found wandering about on shrubs in rain forests or their vicinity.

Species

• Bathippus birmanicus Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
• Bathippus brocchus (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Bathippus dentiferellus Strand, 1911 – Aru Islands
• Bathippus digitalis Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 – Singapore
• Bathippus dilanians (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea, Aru Islands
• Bathippus elaphus (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Bathippus keyensis Strand, 1911 – Kei Islands
• Bathippus kochi (Simon, 1903) – Moluccas
• Bathippus latericius (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Bathippus macilentus Thorell, 1890 – Sumatra
• Bathippus macrognathus (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Bathippus macroprotopus Pocock, 1898 – Solomon Islands
• Bathippus manicatus Simon, 1902 – Borneo
• Bathippus molossus (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Bathippus montrouzieri (Lucas, 1869) – Queensland, New Caledonia
• Bathippus morsitans Pocock, 1897 – Borneo
• Bathippus oedonychus (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Bathippus oscitans (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Bathippus pahang Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 – Malaysia
• Bathippus palabuanensis Simon, 1902 – Java
• Bathippus papuanus (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea, Solomon Islands
• Bathippus proboscideus Pocock, 1899 – New Guinea
• Bathippus rechingeri Kulczynski, 1910 – Solomon Islands
• Bathippus rectus Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 – Singapore
• Bathippus ringens (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Bathippus schalleri Simon, 1902 – Malaysia
• Bathippus sedatus Peckham & Peckham, 1907 – Borneo
• Bathippus seltuttensis Strand, 1911 – Aru Islands
• Bathippus shelfordi Peckham & Peckham, 1907 – Borneo
• Bathippus waoranus Strand, 1911 – Kei Islands

References

• Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
• Zhang, J.X.; Song, D.X. & Li, D. (2003): Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (2): 187-195. PDF Archived 2006-12-29 at the Wayback Machine (B. digitalis, B. pahang, B. rectus)
• Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The World Spider Catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

External links

• Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings and photographs

Further reading

• Tamerlan Thorell: 1892: Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 2. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 31: 1–490. p. 401