Genus Portia Karsch, 1878
- Portia Karsch, F. 1878. Exotisch-araneologisches. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften Halle 51: 323-333, 771-826 [774 (December)].
Type species:
Portia schultzi Karsch, 1878 by original designation.Secondary source:
Wanless, F.R. 1978. A revision of the spider genus Portia (Araneae : Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 34: 83-124 [84]. - Sinis Thorell, T. 1878. Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuanti. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 13: 1-317 [269] [junior homonym of Sinis Heer, 1862].
Type species:
Salticus fimbriatus Doleschall, 1859 by original designation.Secondary source:
Wanless, F.R. 1978. A revision of the spider genus Portia (Araneae : Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 34: 83-124 [84]. - Linus Peckham, G.W. & Peckham, E.G. 1886. Genera of the family Attidae: with a partial synonymy. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 6: 255-342 [289] [nom. nov. for Sinis Thorell, 1878].
Secondary source:
Wanless, F.R. 1978. A revision of the spider genus Portia (Araneae : Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 34: 83-124 [84]. - Boethoportia Hogg, H.R. 1915. On spiders of the family Salticidae collected by the British Ornithologists' Union expedition and the Wollaston expedition in Dutch New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 20: 501-528 [501].
Type species:
Boethoportia ocellata Hogg, 1915 by monotypy.Secondary source:
Wanless, F.R. 1978. A revision of the spider genus Portia (Araneae : Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 34: 83-124 [84]. - Neccocalus Roewer, C.F. 1965. Die Lyssomanidae und Salticidae - Pluridentati der Äthiopischen Region (Araneae). Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren Belgique 139: 86 pp. [20].
Type species:
Cocalus africanus Thorell, 1899 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Wanless, F.R. 1978. A revision of the spider genus Portia (Araneae : Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 34: 83-124 [84]
- Wanless, F.R. 1984. A revision of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) with descriptions of six new genera. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 46: 135-204 [191]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
IBRA
NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.
General References
Chia-Chen Chang, Huey Yee Teo, Norma-Rishid, Y & Daiquin Li 2017. Predator personality and prey behavioural predictability jointly determine foraging performance. Scientific Reports 7: 40734 [1-8]
Chia-Chen Chang, Pangilinan, J. Ng & Daiqin Li 2017. Aggressive jumping spiders make quicker decisions for preferred prey but not at the cost of accuracy. Behavioral Ecology 28: 479-484
Cross, F.R. & Jackson, R.R. 2014. Solving a novel confinement problem by spartaeine salticids that are predisposed to solve problems in the context of predation. Animal Cognition 18: 509-515
Cross, F.R. & Jackson, R.R. 2014. Specialised use of working memory by Portia africana, a spider-eating salticid. Animal Cognition 17: 435-444
Cross, F.R. & Jackson, R.R. 2016. The execution of planned detours by spider-eating predators. Journal of the experimental analysis of behaviour 105: 194-210
Cross, F.R. & Jackson, R.R. 2019. Portia’s capacity to decide whether a detour is necessary. Journal of Experimental Biology 222: jeb203463
Harland, D.P. & Jackson, R.R. 2004. Portia perceptions: the Umwelt of an araneophagic jumping spider. pp.5-40 in Prete, F.R. (ed.). Complex worlds from simpler nervous systems. Cambridge : MIT Press.
Land, M.F. 1985. Fields of view of the eyes of primitive jumping spiders. Journal of Experimental Biology 119: 381-384
Maddison, W.P. 2015. A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 43: 231-292
Murphy, J. & Murphey, F. 1983. More about Portia (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6: 37-45
Nelson, Z.J. & Jackson, R.R. 2012. How spiders practice aggressive and Batesian mimicry. Current Zoology 58: 620-629
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)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30-Sep-2019 | SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 | 14-Aug-2019 | MODIFIED | Barry Richardson |
| 15-Oct-2020 | SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 | 11-Jul-2017 | MODIFIED | Barry Richardson |
| 15-Oct-2020 | SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 | 02-Jun-2015 | MODIFIED | Barry Richardson |
| 15-Oct-2020 | SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 | 26-Jun-2014 | MODIFIED | Dr Federica Turco (QM) |
| 15-Oct-2020 | 20-Jun-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 15-Oct-2020 | 18-Aug-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |