Species Zenodorus orbiculatus (Keyserling, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hasarius orbiculatus Keyserling, E. 1881. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 pp. 1272-1324. [1285, pl. 110 figs 1, 2].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MGH ♂♀, Rockhampton, Gayndah, Port Mackay, Peak Downs and Sydney; whereabouts unknown (Mr Bradley's collection), Cape York.

Generic Combinations

• Zenodorus orbiculatus (Keyserling, 1881). —
  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, fig. 37] (redescription)
• Omoedus orbiculatus (Keyserling, 1881). —
  Zhang, J. & Maddison, W.P. 2012. New euophryine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Zootaxa 3578: 1-35 [22]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

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

General References

Hawkeswood, T.J. 2003. Spiders of Australia: An introduction to their Classification, Biology and Distribution. Sofia : Pensoft 263 pp. [82] (general biology, as Pystira orbiculata)

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]

Simon, E. 1901. Histoire naturelle des Araignées. Paris : Encyclopédie Rorét Vol. 2(3) pp. 381-668 figs 384-792. [656] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement to Pystira)

Zhang, J. & Maddison, W.P. 2012. New euophryine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Zootaxa 3578: 1-35 (Transfers species to Omoedus)

Zhang, Junxia & Maddison, W.P. 2015. Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny. Zootaxa 3938: 1-147

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