Asemonea Explained

Asemonea is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1869.^[1]

Species

it contains twenty-three species, native to Asia and Africa. One species has been introduced to Queensland:^[2]

• Asemonea amatola Wesolowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
• Asemonea bimaculata Dierkens, 2014 – Comoros, Mayotte
• Asemonea clara Wesolowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
• Asemonea crinita Wanless, 1980 – Ivory Coast
• Asemonea cristata Thorell, 1895 – Myanmar
• Asemonea cuprea Wesolowska, 2009 – Zambia
• Asemonea fimbriata Wanless, 1980 – Angola
• Asemonea flava Wesolowska, 2001 – Kenya
• Asemonea liberiensis Wanless, 1980 – Liberia
• Asemonea maculata Wanless, 1980 – Ivory Coast
• Asemonea minuta Wanless, 1980 – Angola
• Asemonea murphyae Wanless, 1980 – Kenya, South Africa
• Asemonea ornatissima Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889 – Madagascar
• Asemonea pallida Wesolowska, 2001 – Kenya
• Asemonea pinangensis Wanless, 1980 – Malaysia
• Asemonea pulchra Berland & Millot, 1941 – West, Central Africa
• Asemonea serrata Wesolowska, 2001 – Kenya
• Asemonea sichuanensis Song & Chai, 1992 – China
• Asemonea stella Wanless, 1980 – Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa. Introduced to Australia (Queensland)
• Asemonea tanikawai Ikeda, 1996 – Japan (Okinawa)
• Asemonea tenuipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (type) – India, Sri Lanka to Thailand
• Asemonea trispila Tang, Yin & Peng, 2006 – China
• Asemonea virgea Wesolowska & Szűts, 2003 – Congo

References

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External links

• Photograph of A. tenuipes

Notes and References

1. Pickard-Cambridge. O.. 1869. Descriptions and sketches of some new species of Araneida, with characters of a new genus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 52–74. 3. 4. 10.1080/00222936908695878. Octavius Pickard-Cambridge.
2. 2021. Gen. Asemonea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. 2021-07-02. World Spider Catalog Version 22.0.
3. Szűts. T.. 2000. An Afrotropical species, Asemonea stella (Araneae: Salticidae) found in Australia. Folia Entomologica Hungarica. 61. 61–63.