Species Cytaea severa (Thorell, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Plexippus severus 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 [596].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG ♂♂, Somerset, Cape York.
• Cytaea alburna Keyserling, E. 1882. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 pp. 1325-1420. [1383, pl. 117 figs 3, 4].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MGH 8644 ♀ ♂, Peak Downs, Rockhampton.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Żabka, M. 1991. Studium taksonomiczno-zoogeograficzne nad Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) Australii. Wyzsza Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna W Siedlcach Rozprawa Naukowa 32: 1-110 [25]
• Proszynski, J. & Deeleman-Reinhold, C.L. 2010. Descriptions of some Salticidae (Araneae) from the Malay Archipelago. I. Salticidae of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with comments on related species. Arthropoda Selecta 19: 153-188 (questions synonomy)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

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 [220, pl. 30] (redescription)

Patoleta, B. & Żabka, M. 1999. Salticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of islands off Australia. Journal of Arachnology 27: 229-235 [232]

Proszynski, J. 2011. Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World: 1995-2011. May 26th, 2015. http://www.peckhamia.com/salticidae/ (retains the synonyms as separate species subject to further research)

Rainbow, W.J. 1920. Arachnida from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 229-272 [267] (as Cytaea alburna)

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