Taxonomic notes of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Xizang and Yunnan, China Author Wang, Cheng 0000-0003-1831-0579 Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization in the Fanjing Mountain Region, Tongren University, Tongren, Guizhou 554300, China Author Mi, Xiaoqi 0000-0003-1744-3855 Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization in the Fanjing Mountain Region, Tongren University, Tongren, Guizhou 554300, China Author Li, Shuqiang 0000-0002-3290-5416 Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Author Xu, Xiang 0000-0001-9485-5373 College of Life Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, Hunan, China text ZooKeys 2024 2024-12-17 1221 205 277 journal article 10.3897/zookeys.1221.135640 B61D8EFC-2753-4B88-8A36-DAB1F37D96BB Genus Piranthus Thorell, 1895 Type species. Piranthus decorus Thorell, 1895 ; type locality Palon, Myanmar . Comments. Piranthus is considered as a member of the tribe Baviini Simon, 1901 ( Maddison 2015 ; Maddison et al. 2020 ). To date, six species are known from tropical Asia ( WSC 2024 ), of which four were described by Maddison et al. (2020) . The genus is relatively well studied because all members are known from diagnostic drawings, and only two are known from a single sex ( WSC 2024 ). Besides the below-described new species, the generotype has also been found in Hainan , China .