Opisthoncus
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Opisthoncus
| image = Opisthoncus_mordax_male.jpg
| image_caption = Male Opisthoncus mordax
| image2 = Opisthoncus-polyphemus-dorsal.jpg
|image2_caption = Dorsal view of Opisthoncus polyphemus
| authority = L. Koch, 1880
| type_species = O. polyphemus
| type_species_authority = (L. Koch, 1867)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 32, see text
}}
Opisthoncus is a genus of South Pacific jumping spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1880.{{cite book| last=Koch| first=L.| year=1880| title=Die Arachniden Australiens| publisher=Nürnberg| pages=1157–1212| author-link=Ludwig Carl Christian Koch}} There are still many Australian species that have not yet been described.
Species
{{as of|2019|08}} it contains thirty-two species, found only in Papua New Guinea and Australia:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Opisthoncus L. Koch, 1880| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-08| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2831| doi=10.24436/2}}
- Opisthoncus abnormis L. Koch, 1881 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus albiventris L. Koch, 1881 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus alborufescens L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus barbipalpis (Keyserling, 1882) – Australia (Queensland)
- Opisthoncus bellus (Karsch, 1878) – Australia (New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus bitaeniatus L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus confinis L. Koch, 1881 – Australia (Queensland)
- Opisthoncus delectabilis Rainbow, 1920 – Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
- Opisthoncus devexus Simon, 1909 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Opisthoncus eriognathus (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
- Opisthoncus grassator Keyserling, 1883 – Australia (Queensland)
- Opisthoncus inconspicuus (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
- Opisthoncus keyserlingi Zabka, 1991 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus kochi Zabka, 1991 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus lineativentris L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus machaerodus Simon, 1909 – Australia (Western Australia)
- Opisthoncus magnidens L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus mandibularis L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus mordax L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus necator L. Koch, 1881 – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus nigrifemur Strand, 1911 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
- Opisthoncus nigrofemoratus (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia (Queensland)
- Opisthoncus pallidulus L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus parcedentatus L. Koch, 1880 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus polyphemus (L. Koch, 1867) (type) – New Guinea, Australia (Queensland, New South Wales). Introduced to New Zealand
- Opisthoncus quadratarius (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia (Queensland)
- Opisthoncus rubriceps (Thorell, 1881) – Australia (Queensland)
- Opisthoncus serratofasciatus L. Koch, 1881 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus sexmaculatus (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Australia (New South Wales)
- Opisthoncus tenuipes (Keyserling, 1882) – Australia (Queensland)
- Opisthoncus unicolor L. Koch, 1881 – Australia (Queensland)
- Opisthoncus versimilis Peckham & Peckham, 1901 – Australia (Victoria)
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080701005054/http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_spiders/BitingJumpingSpider.htm Biting Jumping Spider – Opisthoncus mordax] (photographs, description)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091026213458/http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_spiders/GardenJumpingSpider.htm Garden Jumping Spider – Opisthoncus sp.] (photographs, description)
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Category:Taxa named by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch
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