Trite is a genus of jumping spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1885.[1] Most of the 18 described species occur in Australia and New Zealand, with several spread over islands of Oceania, one species even reaching Rapa in French Polynesia.[2]
| Trite | |
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| T. planiceps | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Trite Simon, 1885 |
| Type species | |
| Trite pennata Simon, 1885
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| Species | |
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see text | |
| Diversity | |
| 21 species | |
Species edit
According to the World Spider Catalog in October 2018, there were twenty one recognised species:[2]
- Trite albopilosa (Keyserling, 1883) – New South Wales, Victoria
- Trite auricoma (Urquhart, 1886) – New Zealand
- Trite caledoniensis Patoleta, 2014 – New Caledonia
- Trite concinna Rainbow, 1920 – Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island
- Trite gracilipalpis Berland, 1929 – Loyalty Islands
- Trite grayi Richardson, 2016 – Lord Howe Islands
- Trite guilberti Patoleta, 2014 – New Caledonia
- 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 mustilina (Powell, 1873) – New Zealand
- Trite ornata Rainbow, 1915 – South Australia
- Trite parvula (ppBryant, 1935) – New Zealand
- Trite pennata Simon, 1885 – New Caledonia
- Trite planiceps Simon, 1899 – New Zealand
- Trite pollardi Patoleta & Żabka, 2017 – New Zealand
- Trite ponapensis Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997 – Caroline Islands
- Trite rapaensis Berland, 1942 – Rapa
- Trite simoni Patoleta, 2014 – New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands
- Trite urvillei (Dalmas, 1917) – New Zealand
References edit
- ^ Simon, E. (1885). "Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologique de la Nouvelle Calédonie". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 29: 87–92.
- ^ a b World Spider Catalog (2018). "Trite Simon, 1885". World Spider Catalog. 19.5. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
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