Holoplatys

Holoplatys is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

Holoplatys
Holoplatys semiplanata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Holoplatys
Simon, 1885
Type species
Marptusa planissima
L. Koch, 1879
Species

See text.

Description

Holoplatys have a long, flat, oval cephalothorax, which is truncated anteriorly, and a long, flat, oval abdomen. They are often found under the bark of trees, especially eucalyptus. They have a resemblance to Marpissa.[1]

Species

  • Holoplatys apressus (Powell, 1873)New Zealand
  • Holoplatys bicolor Simon, 1901Queensland, Western Australia
  • Holoplatys bicoloroides Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
  • Holoplatys borali Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
  • Holoplatys braemarensis Zabka, 1991 – Queensland
  • Holoplatys bramptonensis Zabka, 1991 – Queensland
  • Holoplatys canberra Zabka, 1991Australian Capital Territory
  • Holoplatys carolinensis Berry, Beatty & Prószynski, 1996Caroline Islands
  • Holoplatys chudalupensis Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
  • Holoplatys colemani Zabka, 1991 – Queensland, New South Wales
  • Holoplatys complanata (L. Koch, 1879) – Queensland, Northern Territory, New Guinea
  • Holoplatys complanatiformis Zabka, 1991 – Queensland, New South Wales
  • Holoplatys daviesae Zabka, 1991 – Queensland, New South Wales
  • Holoplatys dejongi Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
  • Holoplatys desertina Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia, South Australia
  • Holoplatys embolica Zabka, 1991 – Queensland
  • Holoplatys fusca (Karsch, 1878) – Western Australia to Queensland
  • Holoplatys grassalis Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
  • Holoplatys invenusta (L. Koch, 1879) – Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria
  • Holoplatys jardinensis Zabka, 1991 – Queensland, New Guinea
  • Holoplatys julimarina Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
  • Holoplatys kalgoorlie Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
  • Holoplatys kempensis Zabka, 1991 – Northern Territory
  • Holoplatys lhotskyi Zabka, 1991 – Queensland, Tasmania
  • Holoplatys mascordi Zabka, 1991 – New South Wales, South Australia
  • Holoplatys meda Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
  • Holoplatys minuta Zabka, 1991 – Queensland
  • Holoplatys oakensis Zabka, 1991 – Queensland
  • Holoplatys panthera Zabka, 1991 – South Australia
  • Holoplatys pedder Zabka, 1991Tasmania
  • Holoplatys pemberton Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
  • Holoplatys planissima (L. Koch, 1879) – Western Australia to Queensland
    • Holoplatys planissima occidentalis Thorell, 1890Sumatra
  • Holoplatys queenslandica Zabka, 1991 – Queensland, New Guinea
  • Holoplatys rainbowi Zabka, 1991 – Queensland
  • Holoplatys semiplanata Zabka, 1991 – Eastern Australia, New Caledonia
  • Holoplatys strzeleckii Zabka, 1991 – South Australia, Tasmania
  • Holoplatys tasmanensis Zabka, 1991 – Tasmania
  • Holoplatys windjanensis Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia

Footnotes

  1. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 274

References

  • Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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