• Evarcha Simon, E. 1902. Etudes arachnologiques 32e Mémoire. LI. Description d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71: 389-421 [397].

  Type species:

   Araneus falcatus Clerck, 1758 (=Evarcha falcata (Clerck, 1758)) by subsequent designation, see Simon, E. 1903. Histoire naturelle des Araignées. Paris : Encyclopédie Roret Vol. 2(4) pp. 669-1080. [708].
• Colopsus Simon, E. 1902. Etudes arachnologiques 32e Mémoire. LI. Description d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71: 389-421 [409].

  Type species:

   Colopsus cancellatus Simon, 1901 by original designation.
• Evacin Proszynski, J. 2018. Review of the genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax, Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologia Montenegrina 16: 130-179 [142] [subjective synonym; Evacin was proposed as a new genus. However the proposal to subdivide Evarcha into five genera has been controversial (Kropf et al 2018) and present usage has been maintained until the issues are clarified. Evacin is a subjective junior synonym of Colopsus (Blick & Marusik 2018)].
  Zoobank Registration Number:https://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6C3A5085-F624-4D0A-9F10-4EBB9AF19F01

  Type species:

   Evarcha kocki Simon, 1902 by original designation.
• Evalba Proszynski, J. 2018. Review of the genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax, Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologia Montenegrina 16: 130-179 [148] [Evalba was proposed as a new genus. However the proposal to subdivide Evarcha into five genera has been controversial (Kropf et al 2018) and present usage has been maintained until the issues are clarified.].

  Type species:

   Hasarius albarius L. Koch, 1878 by original designation.
• Evaneg Proszynski, J. 2018. Review of the genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax, Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologia Montenegrina 16: 130-179 [149] [Evaneg was proposed as a new genus. However the proposal to subdivide Evarcha into five genera has been controversial (Kropf et al 2018) and present usage has been maintained until the issues are clarified.].
  Zoobank Registration Number:https://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6C3A5085-F624-4D0A-9F10-4EBB9AF19F01

  Type species:

   Evarcha negevensis Proszynski, 2000 by original designation.
• Evawes Proszynski, J. 2018. Review of the genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax, Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologia Montenegrina 16: 130-179 [152] [Evawes was proposed as a new genus. However the proposal to subdivide Evarcha into five genera has been controversial (Kropf et al 2018) and present usage has been maintained until the issues are clarified].
  Zoobank Registration Number:https://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6C3A5085-F624-4D0A-9F10-4EBB9AF19F01

  Type species:

   Salticus patagiatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Proszynski, J. 1984. Atlas rysunkow diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Siedlce : Rozprawy Wyzszej Szkoly Pedagogicznej Vol. 2 pp. 1-177. [51]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, Qld, WA: Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU) ; Qld, WA: NSW North Coast (NNC)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

General References

Berry, J.W., Beatty, J.A. & Proszynski, J. 1996. Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. I. Distribution of twelve genera, with descriptions of eighteen new species. Journal of Arachnology 24: 214-253 [234] (summary description)

Blick, T. & Marusik, Y.M. 2018. Three junior synonyms of jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 27: 237-238

Dobroruka, L.J. 1997. Predatory behaviour of four species of jumping spiders of the genus Evarcha (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 61: 279-285

Kropf, C, Blick, T., et al 2019. How not to delimit taxa: a critique on a recently proposed "pragmatic classification" of jumping spiders (Athropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Slaticidae). Zootaxa 4545: 444-6

Lowrie, D.C. & Gertsch, W.J. 1955. A list of the spiders of the Grand Teton Park area, with descriptions of some new North American spiders. American Museum Novitates 1736: 1-29 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement proposed that this genus should be synonymised with Pellenes Simon, 1876)

Raska, J., Stys, P. & Exnerova, A. 2017. How variation in prey aposomatic signals affects avoidance learning, generalization and memory of a salticid spider. Animal Behaviour 130: 107-117

Raska, J., Stys, P. & Exnerova, A. 2018. Perception of olfactory aposematic signals by jumping spider. Ethology 124: 773-776

Richardson, B.J. 2016. New genera, new species and redescription of Australian jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4114(5): 501-560 [523] (The genus needs revision and may include several genera)

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)

Richman, D.B. 1977. The relationship of Evarcha Simon, 1907 to Habronotus F.O. Pickard-Cambridge 1901 and Pellenes Simon 1876. Peckhamia 1: 41

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

Żabka, M. 1993. Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions. IX. Genera Afraflacilla Berland & Millot 1941 and Evarcha Simon 1902. Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 279-295 [292] (redescription)

History of changes

• Hasarius infrastriatus Keyserling, E. 1881. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 pp. 1272-1324. [1279, pl.109 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MGH 7678 ♀ (collected by sweeping grass), Rockhampton; whereabouts unknown ♀ (on foliage), Peak Downs.
• Habrocestum flavipes Keyserling, E. 1882. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 pp. 1325-1420. [1403, pl. 119 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype MGH 7807 ♂ (only palp found, other immature specimens from Pelewiseln and Rockhampton), Peak Downs.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Żabka, M. 1991. Studium taksonomiczno-zoogeograficzne nad Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) Australii. Wyzsza Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna W Siedlcach Rozprawa Naukowa 32: 1-110 [27]

Generic Combinations

• Cytaea infrastriata (Keyserling, 1881). —
  Simon, E. 1903. Histoire naturelle des Araignées. Paris : Encyclopédie Roret Vol. 2(4) pp. 669-1080. [815]
• Evacin infrastriata (Keyserling, 1881) J. Proszynski [Evacin is a subjective junior synonym of Colopsus]. —
  Proszynski, J. 2018. Review of the genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax, Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologia Montenegrina 16: 130-179
• Evarcha infrastriata (Keyserling, 1881). —
  Żabka, M. 1991. Studium taksonomiczno-zoogeograficzne nad Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) Australii. Wyzsza Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna W Siedlcach Rozprawa Naukowa 32: 1-110 [27]
• Colopsus infrastriatus (Keyserling, 1881) T, Blick & Y.M. Marusik. —
  Blick, T. & Marusik, Y.M. 2018. Three junior synonyms of jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 27: 237-238

Introduction

The proposed transfer of Evarcha infrastriata to Colopsus infrastriatus has been controversial (Kropf et al 2019) and present usage has been maintained until the matter is clarified.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

General References

Kropf, C, Blick, T., et al 2019. How not to delimit taxa: a critique on a recently proposed "pragmatic classification" of jumping spiders (Athropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Slaticidae). Zootaxa 4545: 444-6

Patoleta, B. & Żabka, M. 1999. Salticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of islands off Australia. Journal of Arachnology 27: 229-235 [232]

Simon, E. 1903. Histoire naturelle des Araignées. Paris : Encyclopédie Roret Vol. 2(4) pp. 669-1080. [815] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Żabka, M. 1993. Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions. IX. Genera Afraflacilla Berland & Millot 1941 and Evarcha Simon 1902. Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 279-295 [292] (description of female)

History of changes

• Marptusa longula 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 [454].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG ♂, Somerset, Cape York.

Generic Combinations

• Trite longula (Thorell, 1881). —
  Simon, E. 1903. Histoire naturelle des Araignées. Paris : Encyclopédie Roret Vol. 2(4) pp. 669-1080. [829, footnote 1]
• Evarcha longula (Thorell, 1881). —
  Richardson, B.J. 2016. New genera, new species and redescription of Australian jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4114(5): 501-560 [525] (includes full redescription of the type)
• Evawes longula (Thorell, 1881) J. Proszynski [The proposed transfer of Evarcha longula to Evawes longula has been controversial (Kropf et al 2019) and present usage has been maintained until the matter is clarified.]. —
  Proszynski, J. 2018. Review of the genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax, Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologia Montenegrina 16: 130-179 [154]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also in New Guinea

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

General References

Chrysanthus, P. 1968. Spiders from southern New Guinea X. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 111: 49-74 [59] (fig. 43–45)

Davies, V.T. & Żabka, M. 1989. Illustrated keys to the genera of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27: 189-266 [250, fig. 54] (redescription, consider misplaced in this genus)

Kropf, C, Blick, T., et al 2019. How not to delimit taxa: a critique on a recently proposed "pragmatic classification" of jumping spiders (Athropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Slaticidae). Zootaxa 4545: 444-6

Patoleta, B. & Żabka, M. 1999. Salticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of islands off Australia. Journal of Arachnology 27: 229-235 [232]

Rainbow, W.J. 1920. Arachnida from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 229-272

History of changes