Species Zenodorus metallescens (L. Koch, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Philaeus metallescens Koch, L. 1879. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 pp. 1045-1156. [1080, pl. 94 figs 7, 8].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MGH 16517 ♀ ♂ (under bark), Bowen, Rockhampton; whereabouts unknown (Mr Bradley's collection), Cape York.

Generic Combinations

• Zenodorus metallescens (L. Koch, 1879). —
  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 [230, pl. 36] (redescription)
• Omoedus metallescens (L. Koch, 1879). —
  Zhang, J. & Maddison, W.P. 2012. New euophryine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Zootaxa 3578: 1-35 [21]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

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

General References

Jackson, R.R. & Li, D.Q. 2001. Prey-capture techniques and prey preferences of Zenodorus durvillei, Z. metallescens and Z. orbiculatus, tropical ant-eating jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Australia. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28: 299-341

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

Peckham, G.W. & Peckham, E.G. 1901. Spiders of the Phidippus group of the family Attidae. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 13: 282-358 [303] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement in Mollika)

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