Ohilimia

Ohilimia is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.^[1]

Ohilimia
Male Ohilimia sp. in Papua New Guinea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Ohilimia Strand, 1911[1]
Type species
Diolenius albomaculatus Thorell, 1881[1]
Species
See text.
Diversity[1]
3 species
blue: O. albomaculata, orange: O. scutellata

Description

Ohilimia albomaculata reaches a body length of 7 to 8 mm, while O. scutellata is 5 to 7 mm long. The cephalothorax of O. albomaculata is densely covered with short hairs, O. scutellata is only sparsely covered. The sexes are similar, with males having distinctive shiny scuta. The first, elongated pair of legs is held in a mantis-like manner. It seems that Ohilimia mimic flies in reverse: their first legs are held like the wings of a fly, and they move backwards.^[2]

Relationships

Ohilimia is probably closely related to Diolenius and Chalcolecta, which also have elongated front legs.

Distribution

Ohilimia only occurs in rainforests of the northeastern Cape York Peninsula of Australia, New Guinea and the Moluccas islands Ternate and Kai. The current distribution seems to be due to past land bridges.

Species

As of April 2017^[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:^[1]

• Ohilimia albomaculata (Thorell, 1881) – Moluccas; Bird's Head Peninsula, New Guinea
• Ohilimia laensis Gardzińska & Patoleta, 2010 – New Guinea
• Ohilimia scutellata (Kritscher, 1959) – Western and Central Provinces of Papua New Guinea; Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia