Genus Euryattus Thorell, 1881
- Euryattus Thorell, T. 1881. Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 17: 1-727 [660].
Type species:
Euryattus porcellus Thorell, 1881 by subsequent designation, see Simon, E. 1903. Histoire naturelle des Araignées. Paris : Encyclopédie Roret Vol. 2(4) pp. 669-1080. [817]. - Plotius Simon, E. 1902. Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 46: 24-56, 363-406 [394 (footnote)].
Type species:
Plotius curtus Simon, 1902 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Proszynski, J. 1987. Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Siedlce : Rozprawy Wyzszej Szkoly Pedagogicznej pp. 1-172. [78]
- Żabka, M. 1988. Salticidae (Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, III. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 41: 421-479 [455]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
It is centred on New Guinea, but extends from Malaysia and Indonesia to the Pacific Islands and Australia.
IBRA
NSW, NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.
General References
Harland, D.P., Jackson, R.R. & Macnab, A.M. 1999. Distances at which jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) distinguish between prey and conspecific rivals. Journal of Zoology, London 247: 357-364
Jackson, R.R. 1985. The biology of Euryattus sp. indet., a web-building jumping spider (Araneae, Salticidae) from Queensland: utilization of silk, predatory behaviour and intraspecific interactions. Journal of Zoology, London 1: 145-173
Jackson, R.R. 1987. Comparative study of releaser pheromones associated with the silk of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 14: 1-10
Jackson, R.R., Li, D.Q. & Robertson, M.B. 1997. Cues by which suspended leaf nests of Euryattus (Araneae: Salticidae) females are recognized by conspecific males and by an aggressive mimic salticid, Portia fimbriata. Journal of Zoology, London 243: 29-46
Jackson, R.R. & Wilcox, R.S. 1990. Aggressive mimicry, prey-specific predatory behaviour and predator-recognition in the predator-prey interations of Portia fimbriata and Euryattus sp. jumping spiders from Queensland. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 26: 111-119
Jackson, R.R. & Wilcox, R.S. 1993. Predator-prey co-evolution of Portia fimbriata and Euryattus sp., jumping spiders from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 557-560
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)
Żabka, M. 1990. Remarks on Salticidae (Araneae) of Australia. Acta Zoologica Fennica 190: 415-418
Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, W.P. 2013. Molecular phylogeny, divergence times and biogeography of spiders of the subfamily Euophryinae (Araneae: Salticidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68: 81-92
Zhang, Junxia & Maddison, W.P. 2015. Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny. Zootaxa 3938: 1-147
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15-Oct-2020 | SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 | 30-Jun-2017 | MODIFIED | Barry Richardson |
| 15-Oct-2020 | SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 | 02-Jun-2015 | MODIFIED | Barry Richardson |
| 15-Oct-2020 | 14-Feb-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 15-Oct-2020 | 18-Aug-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |