Australian Assassins, Part III: A review of the Assassin Spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland

Collection: Pensoft Publishers

Keywords: New species · Topics: Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies, Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy

The assassin spiders of the family Archaeidae from tropical north-eastern Queensland are revised, with eight new species described from rainforest habitats of the Wet Tropics bioregion and Mackay-Whitsundays Hinterland: A. griswoldi sp. n., A. hoskini sp. n., A. karenae sp. n., A. tealei sp. n., A. thompsoni sp.n., A. wallacei sp. n., A. westi sp. n. and A. woodae sp. n. Specimens of the only previously described species, A. daviesae Forster & Platnick, 1984, are redescribed from the southern Atherton Tableland. The rainforests of tropical eastern Queensland are found to be a potential hotspot of archaeid diversity and endemism, with the region likely to be home to numerous additional short-range endemic taxa. A key to species complements the taxonomy, with maps, natural history information and conservation assessments provided for all species.

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