New genera, new species and redescriptions of Australian jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)
Author
Richardson, Barry J.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4114
5
501
560
journal article
38985
10.11646/zootaxa.4114.5.1
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1175-5326
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Trite
Simon, 1885
Type
species:
Trite pennata
Simon, 1885
, by monotypy.
Remarks.
The genus
Trite
is widespread throughout the south-west Pacific area (
Żabka 1988
). Though several species from mainland
Australia
have been placed previously in this genus, there is no evidence that it occurs there.
All the remaining species have been transferred elsewhere in the present revision with the single exception from
Trite concinna
(
Rainbow 1920
)
from Lord Howe
Island
, an Australian island
700 km
north-east of Sydney in the Tasman Sea. It is one of a chain of islands that occur on the western rim of an undersea shelf, the Lord Howe Rise that is not connected to continental
Australia
. The Rise is
3000 km
long and extends from the west of
New Caledonia
to
New Zealand
.