Genus Arasia Simon, 1901

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arasia Simon, E. 1901. Histoire naturelle des Araignées. Paris : Encyclopédie Rorét Vol. 2(3) pp. 381-668 figs 384-792. [432, 438].

  Type species:

   Astia mollicoma L. Koch, 1880 by original designation.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

SALTICIDAE: Arasia aurea L. Koch, 1880 — 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 [206]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Also Papua New Guinea. A New Guinea species, Arasia eucalypti is likely to occur in For North Queensland.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld: Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

 

General References

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

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)

Wanless, F.R. 1988. A revision of the spider group Astieae in the Australian Region. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 15: 81-172 [115] (redescription)

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

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

Żabka, M. 1990. Remarks on Salticidae (Araneae) of Australia. Acta Zoologica Fennica 190: 415-418

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
05-Aug-2022	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	24-May-2023	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
01-Jun-2021	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	ARANEAE	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
23-Dec-2019	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
30-Sep-2019	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
29-Mar-2018	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	ARANEOMORPHAE	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020	ARANEOMORPHAE	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	ARANEOMORPHAE	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco Jurgen Otto
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED
		26-Jun-2023	MODIFIED