Species Habronestes pictus (L. Koch, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Enyo picta Koch, L. 1865. Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 857-892 [861].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH ♀, NSW: Wollongong, Godeffroy expedition (ZMH).

  Type locality references:

  Koch, L. in Koch, L. & Keyserling, E. [1871–1883] 1865. Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2. [861].
• Storena picta Simon, E. 1893. Histoire naturelle das araignées. Paris Vol. 1 pp. 257-488. [427].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Koch, L. 1865. Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriopoden. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 15: 857-892 [861 (description female)]
• Koch, L. 1872. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1(3) 105-368 pp. [311 T XXV Figs 3, 3a-c (description female)]
• Jocqué, R. 1995. Notes on Australian Zodariidae (Araneae), II. Redescriptions and new records. Records of the Australian Museum 47: 141-160 [143]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal, predator.

Diagnosis

Eyes in 2 rows, both rows procurved, PME and PLE largest. Abdomen with 5 pairs of white patches on top, 3 pairs long, 2 pairs circular and 1 undulating in front of spinnerets.
Remarks. Habronestes pictus is the earliest known Habronestes species, described as Enyo picta by L. Koch (1865). The holotype of Enyo picta L. Koch is mentioned in Jocqué (1995) as lost. Dr Gisela Rack and R. Raven rediscovered the specimen in 1998 in the collection of Zoologisches Museum Hamburg as a part of the Godeffroy Collection. It is a female from Wollongong NSW, described as Enyo picta by by L. Koch in 1865 and as Habronestes pictus (Fig. 133) by L. Koch in1872.

Diagnosis References

Baehr, B. 2003. Revision of the Australian spider genus Habronestes (Araneae: Zodariidae). Species of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Records of the Australian Museum 55: 343-376 [370,371]

General References

Koch, L. & Keyserling, E. [1871–1873] 1873. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 2.

Simon, E. 1903. Histoire Naturelle de Araignées (1892–1903). Paris : Roret Vol. 1.

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