Species Sandalodes scopifer (Karsch, 1878)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ligurinus scopifer Karsch, F. 1878. Diagnoses Attoidarum aliquot novarum Novae Hollandiae collectionis Musei Zoologici Berolinensis. Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Verein 2: 22-32 [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 1671 ♂ (Daemel), Sydney.
• Mopsus albobarbatus Keyserling, E. 1883. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 pp. 1421-1489. [1333, pl. 113 figs 4, 5].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1891/455 ♀ (may be type according to Zabka (2000)), Peak Downs; whereabouts unknown ♂ (under the bark of trees, Museum Godeffroy), Peak Downs.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Żabka, M. 2000. Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, XIII: the genus Sandalodes Keyserling. Invertebrate Taxonomy 14: 695-704 [699]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Mulga Lands (ML), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, open forest, predator, under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks.

General References

Mascord, R. 1970. Australian Spiders in Colour. Balgowlah, NSW : Reed 112 pp. [26, pl. 31] (as Sandalodes scopifer)

History of changes