Australomimetus mendicus

Australomimetus mendicus
Not Threatened
Not Threatened (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Mimetidae
Genus: Australomimetus
Species:
A. mendicus
Binomial name
Australomimetus mendicus
Synonyms

Mimetus mendicus
Mimetus atri-cinctus

Australomimetus mendicus is a species of Mimetidae that is endemic to New Zealand.

Taxonomy

This species was described as Mimetus mendicus in 1880 by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge. It was most recently transferred to the Australomimetus in 2009.

Description

The cephalothorax is orange to yellow coloured with a black marking dorsally. Similarly, the legs are orange with black bands. The abdomen has a mottled black, red and white pattern.

Distribution

This species is known from both islands of New Zealand.

Conservation status

Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Not Threatened".

References

  1. ↑ "NMBE - World Spider Catalog". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  2. ↑ Cambridge, O. P. (1880). "7. On some new and rare Spiders from New Zealand, with Characters of four new Genera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 47 (1): 681–703. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb02701.x. ISSN 0370-2774.
  3. ↑ Harms, D; Harvey, M (2009). "Australian pirates: systematics and phylogeny of the Australasian pirate spiders (Araneae: Mimetidae), with a description of the Western Australian fauna". Invertebrate Systematics. 23 (3): 231–280. doi:10.1071/is08015.
  4. 1 2 Chamberlain, G (1946). "Revision of the Araneae of New Zealand. Part II". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 3: 85–97.
  5. ↑ Sirvid, P. J.; Vink, C. J.; Fitzgerald, B. M.; Wakelin, M. D.; Rolfe, J.; Michel, P. (2020-01-01). "Conservation status of New Zealand Araneae (spiders), 2020" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 34: 1–37.