Opisthoncus
| Opisthoncus | |
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| Male Opisthoncus mordax | |
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| Dorsal view of Opisthoncus polyphemus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Opisthoncus L. Koch, 1880[1] |
| Type species | |
(L. Koch, 1867)
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| Species | |
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32, see text | |
Opisthoncus is a genus of South Pacific jumping spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1880.[2] There are still many Australian species that have not yet been described.
Species[]
As of August 2019 it contains thirty-two species, found only in Papua New Guinea and Australia:[1]
- L. Koch, 1881 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- L. Koch, 1881 – Australia (New South Wales)
- L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- (Keyserling, 1882) – Australia (Queensland)
- (Karsch, 1878) – Australia (New South Wales)
- L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- L. Koch, 1881 – Australia (Queensland)
- Rainbow, 1920 – Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
- Simon, 1909 – Australia (Western Australia)
- (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
- Keyserling, 1883 – Australia (Queensland)
- (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
- Zabka, 1991 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Zabka, 1991 – Australia (New South Wales)
- L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Simon, 1909 – Australia (Western Australia)
- L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (New South Wales)
- L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (New South Wales)
- L. Koch, 1881 – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Strand, 1911 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
- (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia (Queensland)
- L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (New South Wales)
- L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- (L. Koch, 1867) (type) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia (Queensland)
- (Thorell, 1881) – Australia (Queensland)
- L. Koch, 1881 – Australia (New South Wales)
- (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Australia (New South Wales)
- (Keyserling, 1882) – Australia (Queensland)
- L. Koch, 1881 – Australia (Queensland)
- Peckham & Peckham, 1901 – Australia (Victoria)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Opisthoncus L. Koch, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
- ^ Koch, L. (1880). Die Arachniden Australiens. Nürnberg. pp. 1157–1212.
External links[]
- Biting Jumping Spider – Opisthoncus mordax (photographs, description)
- Garden Jumping Spider – Opisthoncus sp. (photographs, description)
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