Species Simaetha thoracica Thorell, 1881

Museums

Regional Maps

• Simaetha thoracica 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 [521].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG ♀, Somerset, Cape York, Qld.
• Eulabes fissideus Keyserling, E. 1882. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 pp. 1325-1420. [1391, pl. 118 fig. 1, 2] [treated as a lapsus calami pro fissidens by Zabka (1994) but appears as such in both the text and index and is accepted by Rainbow (1911)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MGH 7689 1♀ 1♂, Rockhampton, Qld; whereabouts unknown (Museum Godeffroy), Bowen, Gayndah; whereabouts unknown (Mr Bradley's collection), Cape York.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Żabka, M. 1994. Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, X. Genus Simaetha Thorell. Records of the Western Australian Museum 16: 499-534 [504]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

May cohabit with colonies of Badumna candida (Araneae: Desidae).

General References

Jackson, R.R. 1985. The biology of Simaetha paetula and S. thoracica, web-building jumping spiders Araneae, Salticidae) from Queensland: cohabitation with social spiders, utilization of silk, predatory behaviour and intraspecific interactions. Journal of Zoology, London 1B: 175-210

Jackson, R.R. 1987. Comparative study of releaser pheromones associated with the silk of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 14: 1-10

Peckham, G.W. & Peckham, E.G. 1901. Spiders of the Phidippus group of the family Attidae. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 13: 282-358 [306] (considers thoracica and fissideus may be synonyms)

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