Bianor albobimaculatus
| Four-Spotted Bianor Jumping Spider | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Bianor |
| Species: | B. albobimaculatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Bianor albobimaculatus | |
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Bianor albobimaculatus is a species of spider in the family Salticidae.[2] It is widespread across Africa, the Mediterranean, Asia and India, and is commonly known as the four-spotted Bianor jumping spider.[3]
Distribution
Bianor albobimaculatus is found across Africa, the Mediterranean to Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal.[2]
In South Africa, it is known from Eastern Cape Province, Gauteng Province, KwaZulu-Natal Province, Limpopo Province, North West Province and Western Cape Province.[3]
Habitat and ecology
These are free-living plant-dwellers.[3]
In South Africa, specimens were sampled at ground level at the bases of plants but also seen to drop from tall trees such as Vachellia and Cassia species. They were also sampled from cotton fields. Mating takes place during spring. They were found in the Fynbos, Savanna and Nama Karoo biomes at altitudes ranging from 7 to 1,752 m.[3]
Description
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female
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male
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male
Taxonomy
Bianor albobimaculatus was originally described by Lucas in 1846 as Salticus albobimaculatus from Algeria.[1] The genus was revised by Logunov in 2001, who synonymized several species with B. albobimaculatus.[4]
References
- ^ a b Lucas, H. (1846). Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. In: Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842. Vol. 1. Paris, Sciences physiques, Zoologie. pp. 89–271. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.112444.
- ^ a b c "Bianor albobimaculatus (Lucas, 1846)". World Spider Catalog. World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
- ^ a b c d Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S.; Van der Walt, V.; Haddad, C.R.; Foord, S.H.; Lotz, L.N. (2025). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 1 (A-Den). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide. p. 36. doi:10.5281/zenodo.15222559. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ^ Logunov, D.V. (2001). "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 (4): 221–286.