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Piranthus decorus Thorell, 1895:339

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: 1895

Rediscovered in 2015

 

Distribution

Gujarat & Maharashtra, India & Myanmar (=Burma)

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

Holotype: Museo Civico Storia Naturale G. Doria, Genova (MCSNG)

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Thorell, T. (1895). Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum. London. 406 pp.

 

Other references:

Abhijith, A. P. C. and Hill, D. E. (2023). Brood nest of Piranthus planolancis (Araneae: Salticidae: Baviini). Peckhamia 290(1): 1-6. [distribution map]

Caleb, John T. D. and Sanap, Rajesh V. (2017). Rediscovery of Piranthus decorus Thorell, 1895 (Araneae: Salticidae) after 122 years since the original description. Acta Arachnologica 66(1): 25-29.

Hun, N., Raval, J., Zala, U. and Oza, B. (2023). A first taxonomic record of male jumping spider of the genus Piranthus Thorell, 1895 from India (Araneae: Salticidae: Baviini). Munis Entomology and Zoology 18(suppl.): 1972-1979.

Malamel, J. J., Nafin, K. S., Sudhikumar, A. V. and Sebastian, P. A. (2019). Two new species of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the genera Epeus Peckham et Peckham, 1886 and Piranthus Thorell, 1895 from India. Arthropoda Selecta. Русский артроподологический журнал 28(2): 267-276.

Nafin, K. S., Maddison, W. P. and Sudhikumar, A. V. (2020). The first described male of the Asian jumping spider genus Piranthus Thorell, 1895 (Araneae: Salticidae: Baviini). Peckhamia 207(1): 1-7.

Prószyński, J. (1984). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177.

Prószyński, J. (2017). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133.

Singh, Rajendra et al. (2020). Diversity of Amycoida and Astioida (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae) in India. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 8(5): 1478-1488.

Thumar, R. H. (2019). Biodiversity and taxonomic study of predacious spiders of some orchard plants in and around Navsari District, Gujarat. Ph. D thesis, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, Gujarat. 261.

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