Spartaeus

For greek myth figure, see Spartaeus (mythology).

Spartaeus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.^[2] These spiders build large sheet webs on tree trunks to capture prey, mostly moths. When walking, they wave their palps and legs in an unusual way.^[3]

Spartaeus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Spartaeinae
Genus:	Spartaeus Thorell, 1891[1]
Type species
S. spinimanus (Thorell, 1878)
Species
19, see text

The genus was renamed from Boethus in 1984 because the name was found to be preoccupied.^[1]

Species

As of August 2019^[update] it contains nineteen species, found only in Asia:^[1]

• Spartaeus abramovi Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Vietnam
• Spartaeus bani (Ikeda, 1995) – Japan
• Spartaeus banthamus Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
• Spartaeus ellipticus Bao & Peng, 2002 – Taiwan
• Spartaeus emeishan Zhu, Yang & Zhang, 2007 – China
• Spartaeus forcipiformis Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
• Spartaeus jaegeri Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
• Spartaeus jianfengensis Song & Chai, 1991 – China
• Spartaeus karigiri Caleb et al., 2025 – India
• Spartaeus noctivagus Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Laos
• Spartaeus pinniformis Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
• Spartaeus platnicki Song, Chen & Gong, 1991 – China
• Spartaeus serratus Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
• Spartaeus spinimanus (Thorell, 1878) (type) – Sri Lanka to Indonesia (Borneo, Sumbawa)
• Spartaeus tengchongensis Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
• Spartaeus thailandicus Wanless, 1984 – China, Thailand
• Spartaeus triapiculus Yang, W. Liu, P. Liu & Peng, 2017 – China
• Spartaeus uplandicus Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Spartaeus wildtrackii Wanless, 1987 – Malaysia
• Spartaeus zhangi Peng & Li, 2002 – China, Laos