Species Evarcha infrastriata (Keyserling, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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 and IMCRA regions

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