Ballus

Genus of spiders

Ballus

Subadult male B. chalybeius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Salticidae
Subfamily:  | Salticinae
Genus:  | Ballus
C. L. Koch, 1850
Type species
Aranea chalybeia

Walckenaer, 1802

Species

See text.

Ballus is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

## Description

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Ballus are typically small, squat spiders. The carapace is broad oval, almost as wide as long, flat on top with the sides and back almost vertical, and a rugose surface. The shield-shaped abdomen is broadly truncated at the front. Femora, patellae and tibiae on the first pair of legs are swollen in the male, and there is a fringe below the tibiae. Although they are often entirely mottled dark brown, some species are much more colorful.[1]

## Distribution

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This genus has mainly a palearctic distribution, but there are two species from Sri Lanka. Two species from the United States have been transferred to the genus Attidops.[2] B. tabupumensis was described from a single specimen from Burma, with no further information since 1914. Petrunkevitch's description is scant with schematic figures, and could refer to a related genus.[1]

## Species

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* Ballus armadillo (Simon, 1871) – Corsica, Italy
* Ballus chalybeius (Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe, North Africa to Central Asia
* Ballus japonicus Saito, 1939 – Japan
* Ballus lendli Kolosváry, 1934 – Hungary
* Ballus piger O. P-Cambridge, 1876 – Egypt
* Ballus rufipes (Simon, 1868) – Europe, North Africa
* Ballus segmentatus Simon, 1900 – Sri Lanka
* Ballus sellatus Simon, 1900 – Sri Lanka
* Ballus tabupumensis Petrunkevitch, 1914 – Burma
* Ballus variegatus Simon, 1876 – Portugal to Italy

## Footnotes

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1. ^ a b Murphy & Murphy 2000: 273
2. ^ Platnick 2007

## References

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* Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
* Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.

## External links

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* Photograph of B. armadillo
* Photograph of B. chalybeius
* Photograph of B. rufipes

Taxon identifiers

Ballus|

* Wikidata: Q293873
* Wikispecies: Ballus
* ADW: Ballus
* BioLib: 928
* BOLD: 165402
* CoL: 37PG
* EoL: 114110
* Fauna Europaea: 352548
* Fauna Europaea (new): c879437b-08b9-4cee-bc62-bed4053c3225
* GBIF: 2170208
* iNaturalist: 354274
* IRMNG: 1360593
* ITIS: 871738
* NBN: NHMSYS0020706354
* NCBI: 458143
* Open Tree of Life: 654166
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02843

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