Genus Harmochirus Simon, 1885

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• Harmochirus Simon, E. 1885. Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale. III. Arachnides recuellis en 1884 dans la presqu'île de Malacca, par M. J. Morgan. IV. Archnides recuellis à Collegal, district de Coimbatoore, par M. A. Theobald G. R. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 10: 436-462.

  Type species:

   Harmochirus malaccensis Simon, 1885 by monotypy (= Harmochirus brachiatus (Thorell, 1877)).
• Velloa Peckham, G.W. & Peckham, E.G. 1903. New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14: 173-278 [217, 218] [errore pro Valloa].
• Valloa Peckham, G.W. & Peckham, E.G. 1903. New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14: 173-278 [216].

  Type species:

   Valloa modesta Peckham & Peckham, 1903 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bonnet, P. 1959. Bibliographia araneorum: Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéoligique jusqu'en 1939. Toulouse : Les Frères Douladoure Vol. 2(5) 4231-5058 pp. [4786] (Velloa)
• Wesolowska, W. 1994. Notes on the African species of the genus Harmochirus Simon 1885 (Aranei: Salticidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 5: 197-207 [198]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

 

General References

Logunov, D.V. 2000. A redefinition of the genera Bianor Peckham & Peckham, 1885 and Harmochirus Simon, 1885, with the establishment of a new genus Sibianor gen. n. (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 9: 221-286 [249]

Maddison, W.P. 2015. A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 43: 231-292

Richardson, B.J., Whyte, R. & Zabka, M. 2019. A key to the genera of Australian jumping spiders (Aranaea: Salticidae). https://apps.lucidcentral.org/salticidae/

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-Sep-2019	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	27-Sep-2019	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	30-Jun-2017	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020		20-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		18-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)