Telamonia

Telamonia
female T. dimidiata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Section:	Dionycha
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Plexippinae
Genus:	Telamonia Thorell, 1887
Type species
Telamonia festiva Thorell, 1887
Species
see text
Diversity
45 species

Telamonia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders), found in rain forest,^[1] mostly in Asia and parts of Africa.

Description

Telamonia is a colorful genus, with a slender opisthosoma and long legs. The color patterns vary considerably between sexes and species. Two longitudinal stripes along the abdomen are common, and the carapace is often colored.

Species

male T. vlijmi

male T. hasselti

• Telamonia agapeta (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
• Telamonia annulipes Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo
• Telamonia besanconi (Berland & Millot, 1941) — Guinea, Nigeria
• Telamonia bombycina (Simon, 1902) — Borneo
• Telamonia borreyi Berland & Millot, 1941 — Mali
  • Telamonia borreyi minor Berland & Millot, 1941 — Mali
• Telamonia caprina (Simon, 1903) — China, Vietnam
• Telamonia coeruleostriata (Doleschall, 1859) — Amboina
• Telamonia comosissima (Simon, 1886) — Republic of Congo
• Telamonia cristata Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Philippines
• Telamonia dimidiata (Simon, 1899) — India, Bhutan, Sumatra
• Telamonia dissimilis Próchniewicz, 1990 — Bhutan
• Telamonia elegans (Thorell, 1887) — Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia
• Telamonia festiva Thorell, 1887 — Myanmar to Java
  • Telamonia festiva nigrina Simon, 1903 — Vietnam
• Telamonia formosa (Simon, 1902) — Java
• Telamonia fuscimana (Simon, 1903) — West Africa
• Telamonia hasselti (Thorell, 1878) — Myanmar to Sulawesi
• Telamonia jolensis (Simon, 1902) — Philippines
• Telamonia laecta Próchniewicz, 1990 — Bhutan
• Telamonia latruncula (Thorell, 1877) — Sulawesi
• Telamonia leopoldi Roewer, 1938 — New Guinea
• Telamonia livida (Karsch, 1880) — Philippines
• Telamonia longiuscula (Thorell, 1899) — Cameroon
• Telamonia luteocincta (Thorell, 1891) — Malaysia
• Telamonia luxiensis Peng et al., 1998 — China
• Telamonia mandibulata Hogg, 1915 — New Guinea
• Telamonia masinloc Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
• Telamonia mundula (Thorell, 1877) — Sulawesi
• Telamonia mustelina Simon, 1901 — Hong Kong
• Telamonia parangfestiva Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
• Telamonia peckhami Thorell, 1891 — Nicobar Islands
• Telamonia prima Próchniewicz, 1990 — Bhutan
• Telamonia resplendens Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo
• Telamonia scalaris (Thorell, 1881) — Moluccas
• Telamonia setosa (Karsch, 1880) — Philippines
• Telamonia sikkimensis (Tikader, 1967) — India
• Telamonia sponsa (Simon, 1902) — Sri Lanka
• Telamonia thoracica (Thorell, 1899) — Cameroon
• Telamonia trabifera (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
• Telamonia trinotata Simon, 1903 — Equatorial Guinea
• Telamonia trochilus (Doleschall, 1859) — Java
• Telamonia vidua Hogg, 1915 — New Guinea
• Telamonia virgata Simon, 1903 — Gabon
• Telamonia vlijmi Prószynski, 1984 — China, Korea, Japan

Footnotes

References

• Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
• Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Telamonia.

• Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings and photographs