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Australomimetus mendicus

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Australomimetus mendicus

Not Threatened (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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.[1]

Taxonomy

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This species was described as Mimetus mendicus in 1880 by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge.[2] It was most recently transferred to the Australomimetus in 2009.[3]

Description

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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.[4]

Distribution

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This species is known from both islands of New Zealand.[4]

Conservation status

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Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Not Threatened".[5]

References

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  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. ^ a b 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.