Zenodorus (spider) explained

Zenodorus is a genus of the jumping spiders distributed from the Moluccas to Australia, including several islands of the Pacific. It was once considered a junior synonym of Omoedus,^[1] but this was later rejected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2017.^[2] At least one species, Z. orbiculatus, specializes on hunting ants.^[3]

Prószyński placed Zenodorus in his informal group "euophryines".^[2] When synonymized with Omoedus, it was placed in the large tribe Euophryini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae in Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae.

Species

, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:^[4]

• Zenodorus albertisi (Thorell, 1881) — Moluccas to Queensland
• Zenodorus arcipluvii (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) — New Hebrides, Australia
• Zenodorus brevis (Zhang & Maddison, 2012) — New Guinea
• Zenodorus danae Hogg, 1915 — New Guinea
• Zenodorus darleyorum (Zhang & Maddison, 2012) — New Guinea
• Zenodorus durvillei (Walckenaer, 1837) — New Guinea, Australia
• Zenodorus formosus (Rainbow, 1899) — Solomon Islands
• Zenodorus jucundus (Rainbow, 1912) — Northern Territory
• Zenodorus juliae (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
• Zenodorus lepidus (Guérin, 1834) — New Guinea
• Zenodorus marginatus (Simon, 1902) — Queensland
• Zenodorus metallescens (L. Koch, 1879) — Queensland, New Guinea
• Zenodorus meyeri (Zhang & Maddison, 2012) — New Guinea
• Zenodorus microphthalmus (L. Koch, 1881) — Pacific Islands
• Zenodorus niger (Karsch, 1878) — New South Wales
• Zenodorus obscurofemoratus (Keyserling, 1883) — New South Wales
• Zenodorus omundseni (Zhang & Maddison, 2012) — New Guinea
• Zenodorus orbiculatus (Keyserling, 1881) — Queensland, New South Wales
• Zenodorus papuanus (Zhang & Maddison, 2012) — New Guinea
• Zenodorus ponapensis Berry, Beatty & Prószynski, 1996 — Caroline Islands
• Zenodorus pupulus (Thorell, 1881) — Queensland
• Zenodorus pusillus (Strand, 1913) — Samoa, Tahiti
• Zenodorus rhodopae Hogg, 1915 — New Guinea
• Zenodorus semirasus (Keyserling, 1882) — Queensland
• Zenodorus swiftorum (Zhang & Maddison, 2012) — New Guinea
• Zenodorus syrinx Hogg, 1915 — New Guinea
• Zenodorus tortuosus (Zhang & Maddison, 2012) — New Guinea
• Zenodorus variatus Pocock, 1899 — Solomon Islands
• Zenodorus varicans (Thorell, 1881) — Queensland
• Zenodorus wangillus Strand, 1911 — Aru Islands

Notes and References

1. Zhang. J. X.. Maddison. W. P.. 2012. New euophryine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Zootaxa. 3491. 1. 10.11646/zootaxa.3491.1.1. 1–74.
2. Prószyński. J.. 2017. Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina. 12. 1–133. 10.37828/em.2017.12.1. free.
3. Web site: Salticid Ant Eater - Zenodorus orbiculatus. 2019-03-17. Brisbane Insects and Spiders. https://web.archive.org/web/20091026213452/http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_spiders/SalticidAntEater.htm. dead. 2009-10-26.
4. Web site: Gen. Zenodorus Peckham & Peckham, 1886 . World Spider Catalog . Natural History Museum Bern . 2020-09-24.