Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1886

Sudhin, Puthoor Pattammal, Jwala, Ramankutty, Sen, Souvik & Hegde, Vishwanath D., 2024, Taxonomic notes on the genus Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1886 (Araneae, Salticidae) from India, Zoosystematics and Evolution 100 (2), pp. 447-455 : 447

Genus Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1886

Type species.

Epeus tener (Simon, 1877)

Diagnosis.

Species of this genus can be distinguished from other members of the tribe Plexippini by the high and elevated carapace, male palp with flattened and elongated cymbium, postero-ventrally pointing retrolateral basal apophysis, tegulum with a tongue-like basal process, filiform embolus surrounding the semicircle of tegulum and extending to the distal end of cymbium and the epigyne with a shallow anterior depression and long copulatory ducts forming several loops ( Meng et al. 2015; Malamel et al. 2019).