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Genus Plexippus Koch, 1846

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Cosmotropical.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Daly Basin (DAB), Gulf Coastal (GUC)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

 

General References

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 [130] (summary description)

Edwards, G.B. 1980. Experimental demonstration of the importance of wings to prey evaluation by a salticid spider. Peckhamia 2: 6-9

Isbister, G.K., Churchill, T.B., Hurst, D.B., Gray, M.R. & Currie, B.J. 2001. Clinical effects of bites from formally identified spiders in tropical Northern Territory. Australian Medical Journal 174: 79-82

Komiya, M., Yamashita, S. & Tateda, H. 1988. Turning reactions to real and apparent motion stimuli in the posterolateral eyes of jumping spiders. Journal of Comparative Physiology. A. Sensory, Neural and Behavioral Physiology 163: 585-592

Land, M.F. 1985. Fields of view of the eyes of primitive jumping spiders. Journal of Experimental Biology 119: 381-384

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)

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

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020 SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 27-Jul-2017 MODIFIED Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020 20-Jun-2012 MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020 18-Aug-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)