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Thiania latefasciata
(Simon, 1877)
Female
♀8mm
2015-01-08 THU 08:10 UMS University Malaysia Sabah Jungle
Trial
Dark salticids with broad flattish carapace and long front legs.
Found on shrubs and plants. Spiders of this group are common on the
leaves of shrubs as well as in rain forest.
The genus Thiania appears to be restricted to the tropics in this
part of the world.
The cephalothorax of Thiania is flattish, rather broad, but still
rather longer than broad. In plan the sides are almost straight,
converging very slightly to very wide anterior and curving to a wide
truncated posterior.
The abdomen is elongate, rounded at the front and converging
steadily to the spinnerets.
Typically the cephalus is black or dark brown and followed by a
broad, crescent-shaped band of iridescent, bronze-coloured, squamose
hairs. The sides and the rest of the thorax are brown.
The colour and pattern on the abdomen can vary.
Legs I are slightly swollen and larger than the others.
Distribution: Thiania occurs from India and Sri Lanka, throughout
our region and on to Papua New Guinea. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 317. By
courtesy of the Authors' and the Malaysian Nature Society.
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