Genus Habrocestum Simon, 1876

Museums

Regional Maps

• Habrocestum Simon, E. 1876. Les arachnides de France. Paris Vol. 3 pp. 1-364. [131].

  Type species:

   Habrocestum pullatum Simon, 1876 by monotypy.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

SALTICIDAE: Habrocestum nigristernum Dalmas, 1920 — Simon, E. 1901. Histoire naturelle des Araignées. Paris : Encyclopédie Rorét Vol. 2(3) pp. 381-668 figs 384-792. [654] (footnote); Bonnet, P. 1957. Bibliographia araneorum: Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéoligique jusqu'en 1939. Toulouse : Les Frères Douladoure Vol. 2(3) 1925-3026 pp. [2066] (reports this Mediterranean species as from Australia)

SALTICIDAE: Habrocestum opalescens Hogg, 1900 — Hogg, H.R. 1900. A contribution to our knowledge of the spiders of Victoria; including some new species and genera. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 13: 68-123 [77] (nom. nud.)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Richardson & Zabka (unpubl. 2003) consider this genus is not found in Australia and that the species listed is misplaced. The genus is found in the Afrotropical, Nearctic, and Palaearctic Regions

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

 

General References

Elgar, M.A. 1993. Inter-specific association involving spiders: Kleptoparasitism, mimicry and mutualism. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 411-430

Maddison, W.P. 2015. A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 43: 231-292

Proszynski, J. 1987. Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Siedlce : Rozprawy Wyzszej Szkoly Pedagogicznej pp. 1-172. [29] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Proszynski, J. 2003. Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180 [65] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Richardson, B.J., Whyte, R. & Zabka, M. 2019. A key to the genera of Australian jumping spiders (Aranaea: Salticidae). https://apps.lucidcentral.org/salticidae/

Richman, D.B. 1981. A revision of the genus Habrocestum (Araneae, Salticidae) in North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 197-206

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2024	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
26-Jun-2023	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	13-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
05-Aug-2022	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
01-Jun-2021	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	ARANEAE	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
23-Dec-2019	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
30-Sep-2019	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
29-Mar-2018	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	ARANEOMORPHAE	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020	ARANEOMORPHAE	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	ARANEOMORPHAE	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco Jurgen Otto
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		26-Jun-2024	MODIFIED
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