Genus Trite Simon, 1885
- Trite Simon, E. 1885. Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologique de la Nouvelle Calédonie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 29: 87-92 [91].
Type species:
Trite pennata Simon, 1885 by monotypy.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia
IBRA
NSW: NSW South Western Slopes (NSS) ; NSW, SA: Central Ranges (CR)
Other Regions
Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater
Ecological Descriptors
Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.
Note
No species of this genus is known from Australia, all the presently included species are misplaced (Richardson & Zabka, unpubl. 2003).
General References
Aguilar-Arguello, S., Gerhard, D. & Nelson, X,J, 2020. Distance assessment of detours by jumping spiders. Current Zoology 66(3): 263-273
Aguilar-Arguello, S., Gerhard, D. & Nelson, X,J, 2020. Risk assessment and the use of novel shortcuts in spatial detouringtasks in jumping spiders. Behavioral Ecology 30: 1488-1498
Aguilar-Arguello, S., Taylor, A.H. & Nelson, X.J. 2021. Jumping spiders attend to information from multiple modalities when preparing to jump. Animal Behaviour 171: 99-109
Berry, J.W., Beatty, J.A. & Proszynski, J. 1997. Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. II. Distribution of nine genera, with description of eleven new species. Journal of Arachnology 25: 109-136 [132] (summary description)
Derraik, J.G.B., Sirvid, P.J. & Rademaker, M. 2010. The first account of a bite by the New Zealand native spider Trite planiceps (Araneae: Salticidae). New Zealand Medical Journal 123: 112-118
Forster, L. 1982. Visual communication in jumping spiders (Salticidae). pp. 161-212 in Witt, P.N. & Rovner, J.S. (eds). Spider Communication: Mechanisms and ecological significance. Princeton : Princeton University Press.
Harland, D.P., Jackson, R.R. & Macnab, A.M. 1999. Distances at which jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) distinguish between prey and conspecific rivals. Journal of Zoology, London 247: 357-364
Humphrey, B., Helton, W.S., Bedoya, C., Dolev, Y. & Nelson, X.J. 2018. Psychophysical investigation of vigilance decrement in jumping spiders: overstimulation or understatement? Animal Cognition 21: 787-794
Humphrey, B., Helton, W.S. & Nelson, X.J. 2019. Caffeine affects the vigilance decrement of Trite planiceps jumping spiders (Salticidae). Journal of Comparative Psychology 133: 551-557
Jackson, R.R. 1992. Predator-prey interactions between web-invading jumping spiders and Argiope appensa (Araneae, Araneidae), a tropical orb-weaving spider. Journal of Zoology, London 228: 509-520
Maddison, W.P. 2015. A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 43: 231-292
Nelson, X.J., Helton, W.S. & Melrose, A. 2019. The effect of stimulus encounter rate on response decrement in jumping spiders. Behavioural Processes 159: 57-59
Patoleta, B. & Żabka, M. 2017. A new species of Trite Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Zealand, with remarks on Trite relationships and radiation. PeerJ 5: e3463
Patoleta, B.M. 2014. The species of Trite Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Caledonia. Zootaxa 3827: 355-365
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)
Taylor, P.W. 1998. Dagline-mediated mate-searching in Trite planiceps (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 26: 330-334
Taylor, P. W. &. Jackson, R.R. 2003. Interacting effects of size and prior injury in jumping spider conflicts. Animal Behaviour 65: 787-794
Taylor, P. W. &. Jackson, R.R. 2003. Interacting effects of size and prior injury in jumping spider conflicts. Animal Behaviour 65: 787-794
Taylor, P.W. & Jackson, R.R. 1999. Habitat-adapted communication in Trite planiceps, a New Zealand jumping spider (Araneae, Salticidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 26: 127-154
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01-Jun-2021 | SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 | 10-Mar-2021 | MODIFIED | |
| 30-Sep-2019 | SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 | 14-Aug-2019 | MODIFIED | Barry Richardson |
| 15-Oct-2020 | SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 | 10-Jul-2017 | MODIFIED | Barry Richardson |
| 15-Oct-2020 | 15-Feb-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 15-Oct-2020 | 18-Aug-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |