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Pancorius

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Pancorius

| image = Pancorius_crassipes.jpg

| image_caption = Pancorius crassipes

| authority = Simon, 1902

| type_species = P. dentichelis

| type_species_authority = (Simon, 1899)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 41, see text

| synonyms = *Orissania Prószyński, 1992{{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}}

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Pancorius is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.{{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}} They are similar to Hyllus.{{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}}

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.{{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}}

Habitat

Pancorius have been collected from various habitats including a roadside wall with dense vegetation, open forest, tropical rainforest and jungle.{{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 }}

Diet

One species, P. changricus, has been reported to feed on various flies (hover flies, black flies, cluster flies), booklice and thrips.

Species

{{as of|2023|08}} it contains the following species, found throughout southern Asia, with one palaearctic species (P. crassipes):{{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}}

References

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Category:Salticidae genera

Category:Salticidae

Category:Spiders of Asia