Lycidas (spider)

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]

The Australian species of genus Saitis possibly should be grouped in this genus (Hill 2009).

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

Footnotes

References

• Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
• Platnick, Norman I. (2011): The world spider catalog, version 11.5. American Museum of Natural History.

• David Edwin Hill 2009: "Euophryine jumping spiders that extend their third legs during courtship (Araneaee: Salticidia: Euophryinae: Maratus, Saitis)". Peckhamia 74(1): 1-27.