Trite

Trite
Trite planiceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Euophryinae
Genus:	Trite Simon, 1885
Type species
Trite pennata Simon, 1885
Species
see text
Diversity
18 species

Trite is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Most of the 18 described species occur in Australia and New Zealand, with several spread over islands of Oceania, one species even reaching Rapa.

Species

• Trite albopilosa (Keyserling, 1883) — New South Wales, Victoria
• Trite auricoma (Urquhart, 1886) — New Zealand
• Trite concinna Rainbow, 1920 — Lord Howe Islands, Norfolk Islands
• Trite gracilipalpis Berland, 1929 — Loyalty Islands
• Trite herbigrada (Urquhart, 1889) — New Zealand
• Trite ignipilosa Berland, 1924 — New Caledonia
• Trite lineata Simon, 1885 — New Caledonia
• Trite longipalpis Marples, 1955 — Samoa, Tonga
• Trite longula (Thorell, 1881) — Queensland
• Trite mustilina (Powell, 1873) — New Zealand
• Trite ornata Rainbow, 1915 — South Australia
• Trite parvula (Bryant, 1935) — New Zealand
• Trite pennata Simon, 1885 — New Caledonia
• Trite planiceps Simon, 1899 — New Zealand
• Trite ponapensis Berry, Beatty & Proszynski, 1997 — Caroline Islands
• Trite rapaensis Berland, 1942 — Rapa
• Trite urvillei (Dalmas, 1917) — New Zealand
• Trite vulpecula (Thorell, 1881) — Queensland

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog Generic Index, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.

External links

• Photograph of T. planiceps

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