Cheliceroides longipalpis

Cheliceroides longipalpis is a species of spider in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders), found in China and Vietnam.[1]

Cheliceroides longipalpis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Cheliceroides
Species:
C. longipalpis
Binomial name
Cheliceroides longipalpis
Żabka, 1985[1]

The species was initially described from a single male collected from calcareous rocks in rain forest in Vietnam.[2] Females have also been found and described.[1]

Description

The described male is about 9 mm long. The chelicerae are very long with odd outgrowths, the legs quite spiny with a more robust and longer frontal pair. The carapace is brown posteriorly, with a chestnut brown eyefield, which is orange red at the edges and fringed with orange and white, squamose hairs. The opisthosoma features a broad brown median stripe with several yellow spots. On the front end of the stripe there are white hairs, elsewhere it is fringed in grey-brown. The legs are brown, except for parts of the last two pairs, which are orange or yellow.[2]

References
  1. "Taxon details Cheliceroides longipalpis Zabka, 1985", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-04-10
  2. Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000), An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia, Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society, ISBN 978-983-9681-17-8, p. 291
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