Genus Grayenulla Zabka, 1992

Museums

Regional Maps

• Grayenulla Żabka, M. 1992. Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, VII. Paraplatoides and Grayenulla — New genera from Australia and New Caledonia. Records of the Australian Museum 44: 165-183 [175].

  Type species:

   Grayenulla dejongi Zabka, 1992 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tanami (TAN), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB)

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

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)

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

History of changes