Genus Pellenes Simon, 1876

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pellenes Simon, E. 1876. Les arachnides de France. Paris Vol. 3 pp. 1-364. [90].

  Type species:

   Aranea tripunctata Walckenaer, 1802 by original designation.

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS), NSW North Coast (NNC)

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/

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

History of changes