Trite

Trite
T. planiceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Trite Simon, 1885
Type species
Simon, 1885
Species
see text
Diversity
21 species

Trite is a genus of jumping spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1885.^[1] Most of the 18 described species occur in Australia and New Zealand, with several spread over islands of Oceania, one species even reaching Rapa in French Polynesia.^[2]

Species[]

According to the World Spider Catalog in October 2018, there were twenty one recognised species:^[2]

• (Keyserling, 1883) – New South Wales, Victoria
• Trite auricoma (Urquhart, 1886) – New Zealand
• Trite caledoniensis Patoleta, 2014 – New Caledonia
• Rainbow, 1920 – Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island
• Berland, 1929 – Loyalty Islands
• Richardson, 2016 – Lord Howe Islands
• Trite guilberti Patoleta, 2014 – New Caledonia
• (Urquhart, 1889) – New Zealand
• Berland, 1924 – New Caledonia
• Simon, 1885 – New Caledonia
• Marples, 1955 – Samoa, Tonga
• (Powell, 1873) – New Zealand
• Rainbow, 1915 – South Australia
• Trite parvula (ppBryant, 1935) – New Zealand
• Simon, 1885 – New Caledonia
• Trite planiceps Simon, 1899 – New Zealand
• Patoleta & Żabka, 2017 – New Zealand
• Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997 – Caroline Islands
• Berland, 1942 – Rapa
• Trite simoni Patoleta, 2014 – New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands
• (Dalmas, 1917) – New Zealand

References[]

External links[]

• Photograph of T. planiceps

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