{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = Harmochirus insulanus - Lawrence Hylton - 209494354.jpeg | image_caption = ''H. insulanus'' | image2 = Harmochirus brachiatus - portioid - 261564478.jpeg | image2_caption = ''H. brachiatus'' | taxon = Harmochirus | authority = Simon, 1885<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''Ballus brachiatus'' | type_species_authority = Thorell, 1877<ref name=wsc /> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. | diversity = 12 species | diversity_link = #Species }}
'''''Harmochirus''''' is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).<ref name=wsc />
==Distribution== Nine of the described species are found in Asia from Pakistan to Japan and Indonesia. The remaining three live in different parts of Africa.<ref name=wsc />
==Life style== ''H. brachiatus'' is found on flowers and buds, as well as on the tips of leaves. The spiders are also occasionally found on walls, bark and on the ground.<ref name="dippenaar2025" />
==Description== The carapace is somewhat cube shaped and fairly high, with a level cephalic region and almost vertical thorax and sides. The carapace is a broad oval, slightly longer than wide, and has a fairly wide, truncate posterior margin.<ref name="dippenaar2025" />
The abdomen is very broad, oval, and almost circular. Legs are long, and the femora, patellae, and tibiae of leg I are massive, while all the other segments are slender and shiny. There are fringes on the swollen segments of leg I, erect club shaped setae dorsally and ventrally on tibia I, and numerous spines are present ventrally on tibia and metatarsus I.<ref name="dippenaar2025" />
==Taxonomy== This small genus is very close to ''Bianor''; it seems to replace it where ''Bianor'' itself is missing, especially in rainforest habitats.<ref name=Murp00 />
==Species== <gallery mode=packed heights=120px> Harmochirus brachiatus - portioid - 262756957.jpeg|female ''H. brachiatus'' Harmochirus insulanus.crop.jpg|''H. insulanus'' Harmochirus luculentus - Jonathan Whitaker - 103245499.jpeg|''H. luculentus'' Harmochirus zabkai - Gannu03 - 232817656.jpeg|''H. zabkai'' </gallery>
{{as of|2025|10}}, this genus includes twelve species:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''Harmochirus ahmedi'' <small>Biswas, 2016</small> – Bangladesh * ''Harmochirus bianoriformis'' <small>(Strand, 1907)</small> – Central, East Africa, Madagascar * ''Harmochirus brachiatus'' <small>(Thorell, 1877)</small> – India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, China, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia (type species) * ''Harmochirus duboscqi'' <small>(Berland & Millot, 1941)</small> – Ivory Coast, Senegal * ''Harmochirus exaggeratus'' <small>Caleb & Mathai, 2015</small> – India * ''Harmochirus insulanus'' <small>(Kishida, 1914)</small> – China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam * ''Harmochirus lloydi'' <small>Narayan, 1915</small> – India * ''Harmochirus luculentus'' <small>Simon, 1886</small> – Sub-Saharan Africa, Zanzibar, Yemen * ''Harmochirus maijdiensis'' <small>Biswas, 2024</small> – Bangladesh * ''Harmochirus pineus'' <small>Xiao & Wang, 2005</small> – China * ''Harmochirus tikaderi'' <small>Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2019</small> – Bangladesh * ''Harmochirus zabkai'' <small>Logunov, 2001</small> – Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2678 | title=Gen. ''Harmochirus'' Simon, 1886 | publisher=World Spider Catalog | doi=10.24436/2 | accessdate=2025-10-09}}</ref> <ref name="dippenaar2025">{{cite book | last1=Dippenaar-Schoeman | first1=A.S. | last2=Van der Walt | first2=V. | last3=Haddad | first3=C.R. | last4=Foord | first4=S.H. | last5=Lotz | first5=L.N. | year=2025 | title=The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 2 (E-Ha). Version 1 | publisher=South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide | page=57 | doi=10.5281/zenodo.15266589}}{{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by4}}</ref> <ref name="Murp00">{{Cite book |last1=Murphy |first1=Frances |last2=Murphy |first2=John |date=2000 |title=An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia |publication-place=Kuala Lumpur |publisher=Malaysian Nature Society |isbn=978-983-9681-17-8 |name-list-style=amp }}</ref> }}
==Further reading== * 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. (Araneae: Salticidae)". ''Arthropoda Selecta'' '''9'''(4): 221–286.
==External links== * {{inaturalist taxon}}
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Category:Salticidae Category:Salticidae genera Category:Spiders of Africa Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon