Genus Asemonea O.P.-Cambridge, 1869

Museums

Regional Maps

• Asemonea Cambridge, O.P.- 1869. Descriptions and sketches of some new species of Araneidea, with characters of a new genus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3(4): 52-74 [65].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

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

Szüts, T. 2000. An afrotropical species, Asemona stella, (Araneae: Salticidae), found in Australia. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 61: 61-63 (reports the presence of two females of this genus in material collected in the Mackay-Bowen area by the Hungarian Soil Expedition in 1965. As the group had been working in Africa prior to coming to Australia, this observation needs to be confirmed from further material before the genus is included in the Australian fauna)

History of changes