Species Harmochirus brachiatus (Thorell, 1877)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ballus brachiatus Thorell, T. 1877. Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragi di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 10: 341-634.

  Type data:

   Holotype MSNG 1818 ♂, Java.
• Harmochirus malaccensis 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 [441].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂, Malacca.
• Harmochirus nervosus Thorell, T. 1890. Aracnidi di Nias e di Sumatra raccolti nel 1886 dal Sig. E. Modigliani. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 10: 5-106 [68].

  Type data:

   Holotype MSNG ♂, Sumatra.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 : British Museum (Natural History) 406 pp. (nervosa and malaccensis with brachiatus)
• Simon, E. 1903. Études arachnologiques. 33e Mémoire. LIII. Arachnides recueillis á Phuc-Son (Annam) par M. H. Fruhstorfer (nov-déc. 1899). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71: 725-736 (brachiatus and nervosus)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, closed forest, open forest, 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 [250, figs 2, 169-174, 177-191, 247, 265] (redescription)

Proszynski, J. & Deeleman-Reinhold, C.L. 2010. Descriptions of some Salticidae (Araneae) from the Malay Archipelago. I. Salticidae of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with comments on related species. Arthropoda Selecta 19: 153-188 [167] (redescription of Indonesian form)

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