Lycidas (genus)
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Lycidas is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Almost all species are endemic to Australia, with a single species (L. furvus) found in China.
Females are from three to seven millimeters long, males from three to five. Since all other species are from Australia, there is some doubt if L. furvus from China really belongs to this genus.[1]
[edit] Species
- Lycidas anomaliformis Zabka, 1987 — Queensland
- Lycidas anomalus Karsch, 1878 — New South Wales
- Lycidas bitaeniatus (Keyserling, 1882) — Australia
- Lycidas chlorophthalmus (Simon, 1909) — Western Australia
- Lycidas chrysomelas (Simon, 1909) — Western Australia to New South Wales, Victoria
- Lycidas dialeucus (L. Koch, 1881) — Queensland, New South Wales
- Lycidas furvus Song & Chai, 1992 — China
- Lycidas griseus (Keyserling, 1882) — Queensland
- Lycidas heteropogon (Simon, 1909) — Western Australia
- Lycidas karschi Zabka, 1987 — New South Wales
- Lycidas kochi Zabka, 1987 — Australia
- Lycidas michaelseni (Simon, 1909) — Western Australia
- Lycidas nigriceps (Keyserling, 1882) — Queensland
- Lycidas nigromaculatus (Keyserling, 1883) — Queensland
- Lycidas obscurior (Simon, 1909) — Western Australia
- Lycidas piliger (Keyserling, 1882) — Queensland
- Lycidas pilosus (Keyserling, 1882) — Queensland
- Lycidas scutulatus (L. Koch, 1881) — Australia
- Lycidas speculifer (Simon, 1909) — Western Australia
- Lycidas vittatus (Keyserling, 1881) — Queensland
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 275
[edit] 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.
