Pancorius

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Pancorius | image = Pancorius_crassipes.jpg | image_caption = ''Pancorius crassipes'' | authority = Simon, 1902<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''P. dentichelis'' | type_species_authority = (Simon, 1899) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 41, see text | synonyms = *''Orissania'' Prószyński, 1992<ref name=Prós2013>{{cite journal| last1=Prószyński| first1=J.| last2=Deeleman-Reinhold| first2=C. L.| year=2013| title=Description of some Salticidae (Araneae) from the Malay Archipelago. III. Salticidae of Borneo, with comments on adjacent territories| journal=Arthropoda Selecta| volume=22| page=138| doi=10.15298/arthsel.22.2.02| doi-access=free}}</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /> }} '''''Pancorius''''' is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.<ref name=Simo1902>{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1902| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite)| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=389–421| volume=71| author-link=Eugène Simon}}</ref> They are similar to ''Hyllus''.<ref name=Zhang2003>{{cite journal| last1=Zhang| first1=J.X.| last2=Song| first2=D.X.| last3=Li| first3=D.| year=2003| title=Six new and one newly recorded species of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Singapore and Malaysia| journal=The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology| volume=51| issue=2| pages=187–195| url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/51/51rbz187-195.pdf| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061229224828/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/51/51rbz187-195.pdf| url-status=dead| archive-date=2006-12-29}}</ref>

== Description == ''Pancorius'', or at least its Vietnamese species, are rather big, thickset and densely haired jumping spiders. The male palpal organ has a simple structure, while the female epigyne has two pockets and their internal structures consist of 2-3 vast chambers.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |first=Marek |last=Żabka |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/223345453 |title=Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam |date=1985 |publisher=Polska akadamia Nauk., Instytut Zoologii |isbn=83-01-06374-2 |oclc=223345453}}</ref>

== Habitat == ''Pancorius'' have been collected from various habitats including a roadside wall with dense vegetation, open forest, tropical rainforest and jungle.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Anushka Gurung |last2=Aita Hang Subba Limboo |last3=Bhoj Kumar Acharya |last4=Prajapati |first4=Dhruv A. |date=2022-04-26 |title=First record of the jumping spider ''Pancorius changricus'' Żabka, 1990 from India (Araneae: Salticidae) |journal=Journal of Threatened Taxa |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=20939–20942 |doi=10.11609/jott.7890.14.4.20939-20942 |issn=0974-7907|doi-access=free }}</ref>

== Diet == One species, ''P. changricus'', has been reported to feed on various flies (hover flies, black flies, cluster flies), booklice and thrips.<ref name=":1" />

==Species== {{as of|2023|08}} it contains the following species, found throughout southern Asia, with one palaearctic species (''P. crassipes''):<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Pancorius Simon, 1902| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-08| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2844| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Pancorius alboclypeus'' Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 – Sri Lanka *''Pancorius altus'' Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 – Sri Lanka *''Pancorius animosus'' Peckham & Peckham, 1907 – Borneo *''Pancorius armatus'' Jastrzebski, 2011 – Nepal *''Pancorius athukoralai'' Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021 – Sri Lanka *''Pancorius borneensis'' Simon, 1902 – Borneo *''Pancorius cadus'' Jastrzebski, 2011 – Nepal *''Pancorius candidus'' Wang & Wang, 2020 – China *''Pancorius changricus'' Zabka, 1990 – Bhutan *''Pancorius cheni'' Peng & Li, 2008 – China *''Pancorius crassipes'' (Karsch, 1881) – Eastern and South-eastern Asia, Poland (?) *''Pancorius crinitus'' Logunov & Jäger, 2015 – Vietnam *''Pancorius curtus'' (Simon, 1877) – Philippines *''Pancorius dabanis'' (Hogg, 1922) – India *''Pancorius daitaricus'' (Prószyński, 1992) – India *''Pancorius darjeelingianus'' Prószyński, 1992 – India *''Pancorius dentichelis'' (Simon, 1899) (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra) *''Pancorius fasciatus'' Peckham & Peckham, 1907 – Borneo *''Pancorius goulufengensis'' Peng, Yin, Yan & Kim, 1998 – China *''Pancorius guiyang'' Yang, Gu & Yu, 2023 – China *''Pancorius hainanensis'' Song & Chai, 1991 – China *''Pancorius kaskiae'' Zabka, 1990 – Nepal *''Pancorius kohi'' Zhang, Song & Li, 2003 – Singapore *''Pancorius latus'' Cao & Li, 2016 – China *''Pancorius lui'' Gan, Mi & Wang, 2022 – China *''Pancorius magniformis'' Zabka, 1990 – Bhutan *''Pancorius magnus'' Zabka, 1985 – India, Nepal, Vietnam, Taiwan *''Pancorius naevius'' Simon, 1902 – Indonesia (Java, Sumatra) *''Pancorius nagaland'' Caleb, 2019 – India *''Pancorius nahang'' Logunov, 2021 – Vietnam *''Pancorius petoti'' Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2013 – Borneo *''Pancorius protervus'' (Simon, 1902) – Malaysia *''Pancorius pseudomagnus'' Logunov, 2021 – Vietnam *''Pancorius relucens'' (Simon, 1901) – China (Hong Kong) *''Pancorius scoparius'' Simon, 1902 – Indonesia (Java) *''Pancorius submontanus'' Prószyński, 1992 – India, Japan *''Pancorius tagorei'' Prószyński, 1992 – India *''Pancorius taiwanensis'' Bao & Peng, 2002 – Taiwan *''Pancorius thorelli'' (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra) *''Pancorius urnus'' Jastrzebski, 2011 – Nepal *''Pancorius wangdicus'' Zabka, 1990 – Bhutan *''Pancorius wesolowskae'' Wang & Wang, 2020 – China

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Salticidae genera Category:Salticidae Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon

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