Pancorius Explained
Pancorius is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[1] They are similar to Hyllus.[2]
Description
Pancorius, or at least its Vietnamese species, are rather big, thickset and densely haired jumping spiders. The male palpal organ has a simple structure, while the female epigyne has two pockets and their internal structures consist of 2-3 vast chambers.[3]
Habitat
Pancorius have been collected from various habitats including a roadside wall with dense vegetation, open forest, tropical rainforest and jungle.[4]
Diet
One species, P. changricus, has been reported to feed on various flies (hover flies, black flies, cluster flies), booklice and thrips.
Species
it contains the following species, found throughout southern Asia, with one palaearctic species (P. crassipes):[5]
- Pancorius alboclypeus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 – Sri Lanka
- Pancorius altus Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 – Sri Lanka
- Pancorius animosus Peckham & Peckham, 1907 – Borneo
- Pancorius armatus Jastrzebski, 2011 – Nepal
- Pancorius athukoralai Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 – Sri Lanka
- Pancorius borneensis Simon, 1902 – Borneo
- Pancorius cadus Jastrzebski, 2011 – Nepal
- Pancorius candidus Wang & Wang, 2020 – China
- Pancorius changricus Zabka, 1990 – Bhutan
- Pancorius cheni Peng & Li, 2008 – China
- Pancorius crassipes (Karsch, 1881) – Eastern and South-eastern Asia, Poland (?)
- Pancorius crinitus Logunov & Jäger, 2015 – Vietnam
- Pancorius curtus (Simon, 1877) – Philippines
- Pancorius dabanis (Hogg, 1922) – India
- Pancorius daitaricus (Prószyński, 1992) – India
- Pancorius darjeelingianus Prószyński, 1992 – India
- Pancorius dentichelis (Simon, 1899) (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Pancorius fasciatus Peckham & Peckham, 1907 – Borneo
- Pancorius goulufengensis Peng, Yin, Yan & Kim, 1998 – China
- Pancorius guiyang Yang, Gu & Yu, 2023 – China
- Pancorius hainanensis Song & Chai, 1991 – China
- Pancorius kaskiae Zabka, 1990 – Nepal
- Pancorius kohi Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 – Singapore
- Pancorius latus Cao & Li, 2016 – China
- Pancorius lui Gan, Mi & Wang, 2022 – China
- Pancorius magniformis Zabka, 1990 – Bhutan
- Pancorius magnus Zabka, 1985 – India, Nepal, Vietnam, Taiwan
- Pancorius naevius Simon, 1902 – Indonesia (Java, Sumatra)
- Pancorius nagaland Caleb, 2019 – India
- Pancorius nahang Logunov, 2021 – Vietnam
- Pancorius petoti Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Borneo
- Pancorius protervus (Simon, 1902) – Malaysia
- Pancorius pseudomagnus Logunov, 2021 – Vietnam
- Pancorius relucens (Simon, 1901) – China (Hong Kong)
- Pancorius scoparius Simon, 1902 – Indonesia (Java)
- Pancorius submontanus Prószyński, 1992 – India, Japan
- Pancorius tagorei Prószyński, 1992 – India
- Pancorius taiwanensis Bao & Peng, 2002 – Taiwan
- Pancorius thorelli (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Pancorius urnus Jastrzebski, 2011 – Nepal
- Pancorius wangdicus Zabka, 1990 – Bhutan
- Pancorius wesolowskae Wang & Wang, 2020 – China
Notes and References
- Simon. E.. 1902. Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 389–421. 71. Eugène_Simon.
- Zhang. J.X.. Song. D.X.. Li. D.. 2003. Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 51. 2. 187–195. https://web.archive.org/web/20061229224828/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/51/51rbz187-195.pdf. dead. 2006-12-29.
- Book: Żabka, Marek . Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam . 1985 . Polska akadamia Nauk., Instytut Zoologii . 83-01-06374-2 . 223345453.
- Anushka Gurung . Aita Hang Subba Limboo . Bhoj Kumar Acharya . Prajapati . Dhruv A. . 2022-04-26 . First record of the jumping spider Pancorius changricus Żabka, 1990 from India (Araneae: Salticidae) . Journal of Threatened Taxa . 14 . 4 . 20939–20942 . 10.11609/jott.7890.14.4.20939-20942 . 0974-7907. free .
- Gen. Pancorius Simon, 1902. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-09-08. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.
