Genus Abracadabrella Zabka, 1991

Museums

Regional Maps

• Abracadabrella Żabka, M. 1991. Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, VII. Mopsolodes, Abracacdabrella and Pseudosynagelides — new genera from Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30: 621-644 [626].

  Type species:

   Marptusa elegans L. Koch, 1879 (=Ocrisiona elegans (L. Koch, 1879)) by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Channel Country (CHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) ; NSW, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Jarrah Forest (JF) ; SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

General References

Maddison, W.P. 2015. A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 43: 231-292

Richardson, B.J., Whyte, R. & Zabka, M. 2019. A key to the genera of Australian jumping spiders (Aranaea: Salticidae). https://apps.lucidcentral.org/salticidae/

Richardson, B.J., Żabka, M., Gray, M.R. & Milledge, G. 2006. Distributional patterns of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Journal of Biogeography 33: 707-719 (Gives BIOCLIM predicted distribution of the genus)

Whyte, R. & Anderson, G. 2017. A field guide to the spiders of Australia. Clayton : CSIRO Publishing pp.

History of changes