Genus Saitis Simon, 1876

Museums

Regional Maps

• Saitis Simon, E. 1876. Les arachnides de France. Paris Vol. 3 pp. 1-364. [168].

  Type species:

   Attus barbipes Simon, 1876 (=Saitis barbipes (Simon, 1876)) by monotypy.
• Therosa Keyserling, E. 1882. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 pp. 1325-1420. [1412].

  Type species:

   Therosa magniceps Keyserling, 1882 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT: MacDonnell Ranges (MAC) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP) ; SA: Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

 

General References

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 [238] (Prostheclina not a synonym)

Hill, D.E. 2009. Euophryine jumping spiders that extend their third legs during courtship (Araneae: Salticiae: Euophryinae: Maratus, Saitus). Peckhamia 74.1: 1-27

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

Otto, J.C. & Hill, D.E. 2012. Notes on Maratus Karsch 1878 and related jumping spiders from Australia, with five new species (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Peckhamia 103.1: 1-81 (New species)

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)

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

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	05-Jul-2017	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	28-May-2015	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020		15-Feb-2013	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		18-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)