Species Pristobaeus beccarii (Thorell, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Plexippus beccarii Thorell, T. 1881. Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 17: 1-727 [582].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG ♀ ♂, Ternate, Ceram, Andai, Ramoi, Pulo Faor, Fly River, Yule Island and Somerset, Cape York.

Generic Combinations

• Palpelius beccarii (Thorell, 1881). —
  Simon, E. 1903. Histoire naturelle des Araignées. Paris : Encyclopédie Roret Vol. 2(4) pp. 669-1080. [735, fig. 742]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

General References

Chrysanthus, P. 1968. Spiders from southern New Guinea X. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 111: 49-74 [61] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonymised with P. dearmatus)

Davies, V.T. & Żabka, M. 1989. Illustrated keys to the genera of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27: 189-266 [236, fig. 39] (redescription, though illustrated female probably P. dearmatus)

Proszynski, J. 1984. Atlas rysunkow diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Siedlce : Rozprawy Wyzszej Szkoly Pedagogicznej Vol. 2 pp. 1-177. [96-97] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement did not accept synonymy with P. dearmatus)

Zhang, Jun-Xia & Maddison, W.P. 2013. Molecular phylogeny, divergence times and biogeography of spiders of the subfamily Euophryinae (Araneae: Salticidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68: 81-92

Zhang, Junxia & Maddison, W.P. 2015. Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny. Zootaxa 3938: 1-147 (transferred to Pristobaeus)

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