Species Dysdera crocota C.L. Koch, 1839

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dysdera crocota Koch, C.L. 1839. Die Arachniden. Getreu nach der Natur abgebildet und beschrieben. Nürnberg : C.H. Zeh'schen Vol. 6 156 pp. [81] [the emendation crocata employed by many authors is reganded as an invalid emendendation under ICZN Art. 32(a)(ii)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀ ♂ adult, Greece and Aegean Sea.

  Type locality references:

  Bonnet, P. 1961. Bibliographia Araneorum. Toulouse : Douadoure Vol. 2. [1945-1961].
• Dysdera australiensis Rainbow, W.J. 1900. Descriptions of some new Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 9. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 483-494 [485].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM KS8700 ♀ adult, Sydney, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hickman, V.V. 1967. Some Common Spiders of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 112 pp. [39]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Nomadic, predator, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Introduced.

 

General References

Hickman, V.V. 1967. Some Common Spiders of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 112 pp.

Main, B.Y. 1976. Spiders. Sydney : Collins 296 pp.

Mascord, R. 1970. Australian Spiders in Colour. Balgowlah, NSW : Reed 112 pp.

Mascord, R. 1980. Spiders of Australia. A field guide. Sydney : Reed 128 pp.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020	ARANEOMORPHAE	04-Apr-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco Jurgen Otto
15-Oct-2020		20-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)