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Genus Portia Karsch, 1878

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

 

General References

Chia-Chen Chang, Huey Yee Teo, Norma-Rishid, Y & Daiquin Li 2017. Predator personality and prey behavioural predictability jointly determine foraging performance. Scientific Reports 7: 40734 [1-8]

Chia-Chen Chang, Pangilinan, J. Ng & Daiqin Li 2017. Aggressive jumping spiders make quicker decisions for preferred prey but not at the cost of accuracy. Behavioral Ecology 28: 479-484

Cross, F.R. & Jackson, R.R. 2014. Solving a novel confinement problem by spartaeine salticids that are predisposed to solve problems in the context of predation. Animal Cognition 18: 509-515

Cross, F.R. & Jackson, R.R. 2014. Specialised use of working memory by Portia africana, a spider-eating salticid. Animal Cognition 17: 435-444

Cross, F.R. & Jackson, R.R. 2016. The execution of planned detours by spider-eating predators. Journal of the experimental analysis of behaviour 105: 194-210

Cross, F.R. & Jackson, R.R. 2019. Portia’s capacity to decide whether a detour is necessary. Journal of Experimental Biology 222: jeb203463

Harland, D.P. & Jackson, R.R. 2004. Portia perceptions: the Umwelt of an araneophagic jumping spider. pp.5-40 in Prete, F.R. (ed.). Complex worlds from simpler nervous systems. Cambridge : MIT Press.

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

Murphy, J. & Murphey, F. 1983. More about Portia (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6: 37-45

Nelson, Z.J. & Jackson, R.R. 2012. How spiders practice aggressive and Batesian mimicry. Current Zoology 58: 620-629

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)
30-Sep-2019 SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 14-Aug-2019 MODIFIED Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020 SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 11-Jul-2017 MODIFIED Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020 SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 02-Jun-2015 MODIFIED Barry Richardson
15-Oct-2020 SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 26-Jun-2014 MODIFIED Dr Federica Turco (QM)
15-Oct-2020 20-Jun-2012 MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020 18-Aug-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)