Diagnoses of genera of South East Asia: Genus: Harmochirus. See also Koh, p. 106. This is a small genus very close to Bianor, One widespread species, H. brachiatus, occurs in our area. Harmochirus appears to be a rainforest species and seems to replace Bianor in the region where Bianor is missing. For the male of H. brachiatus, the cephalothorax is somewhat cube-shaped, fairly high, the cephalus flat and the thorax and sides almost vertical. In plan, the carapace is a broad oval, a little longer than wide and has a fairly wide truncate posterior margin. The abdomen is a very broad oval and almost circular. All the legs are long and the femora, patellae and tibiae of legs I are massive. All the other segments are slender and shiny. There are fringes on the swollen segments of leg I and substantial spines beneath tibiae I and metatarsi I. Elsewhere there are few other spines. The carapace is rugose and brown in colour with a thin white, marginal stripe along each side. The abdomen is entirely covered by a dark brown, shiny scutum. Legs I are brown and the others are brownish yellow with brown stripes, particularly on the femora. Distribution: Although there are not many species, the range of Harmochirus stretches from Africa to Japan and Australia. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 342-343. By courtesy of the Authors' and the Malaysian Nature Society.
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