Common in Queensland, New South Wales and most of New Zealand south to Christchurch, often seen around built up areas on walls and fences during the warmer part of the day. Known as 'House Hopper' it is among the most obvious and encountered spiders on NZ's North Island. It is a very mobile spider quick to jump. The male is brown with a mat of forward-pointing orange to bright red hairs on the front of the head, obvious from facing shots. The male has distinctively longer and fringed legs III, which it may use in courtship display. The forward facing fringing is black and the rearward facing fringing is white. The legs III are heavily armed with spines. There is a patchy white garland high on the rear of the head of the male, and white lines from the garland to the perimeter of the head at the back, rather like arched windows. The abdomen is very shaggy, with a white spot at the rear. The pedipalps have quite a lot of white hairs from the femurs to the tibiae, rather like Joel Garner's sweatbands. A darker stripe runs lengthways down the upper surface of the abdomen. The head of the male appears depressed or sunken in the middle, obvious in some photos. The female also has a white garland (the meaning of albovittatum) around the crown of the head at the rear and usually a uniformly grey or somewhat mottled abdomen.
- Adult male from Nelson, South Island
- Female adult 080211 Papamoa Beach New Zealand
- Female adult 080211 Papamoa Beach New Zealand
- Egg sac in foliage 080211 Papamoa Beach New Zealand
- Egg sac open with spiderlings 080211 Papamoa Beach New Zealand
- Male adult from above, North Queensland
- Male adult facing oblique, North Queensland
- Male from Stoney Creek, South East Queensland
- Male from Stoney Creek, South East Queensland
- Male from North Queensland AUS-394 Paluma 15-11-12
- Male from North Queensland AUS-394 Paluma 15-11-12
- Male from North Queensland AUS-394 Paluma 15-11-12
- Male from North Queensland AUS-394 Paluma 15-11-12
- Male from North Queensland AUS-394 Paluma 15-11-12
- Male from Applegrove Farm, Girraween
- Male from Applegrove Farm, Girraween
- Male from Applegrove Farm, Girraween, palp
- Female from Applegrove Farm, Girraween, with epigyne
- Female from Kidaman Creek, Sunshine Coast, with teeth and epigyne
- Male, Gloucester, NSW
- Female, Nana Glen, NSW
- Male and female Walton Bridge Reserve
- Male from Victoria
- References
Adult male from Nelson, South Island
Female adult 080211 Papamoa Beach New Zealand
Female adult 080211 Papamoa Beach New Zealand
Egg sac in foliage 080211 Papamoa Beach New Zealand
Egg sac open with spiderlings 080211 Papamoa Beach New Zealand
Male adult from above, North Queensland
Male adult facing oblique, North Queensland
Male from Stoney Creek, South East Queensland
Male from Stoney Creek, South East Queensland
Male from North Queensland AUS-394 Paluma 15-11-12
Male from North Queensland AUS-394 Paluma 15-11-12
Male from North Queensland AUS-394 Paluma 15-11-12
Male from North Queensland AUS-394 Paluma 15-11-12
Male from North Queensland AUS-394 Paluma 15-11-12
Male from Applegrove Farm, Girraween
Male from Applegrove Farm, Girraween
Male from Applegrove Farm, Girraween, palp
Female from Applegrove Farm, Girraween, with epigyne
A from above, B from side, C epigyne, D epigyne alternate view, E from above.
Female from Kidaman Creek, Sunshine Coast, with teeth and epigyne
A facing, B from behind, C epigyne, D chelicerae and teeth
Male, Gloucester, NSW
Female, Nana Glen, NSW
Male and female Walton Bridge Reserve
Male from Victoria
References
- Zabka and Pollard, 2002 - SaIticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of New Zealand: genus Hypoblemum
Peckham and Peckham, 1886 Recordsof Canterbury Museum Vol 16 pp 64-72 - Oto & Hill, 2012 - Notes on Maratus Karsch 1878 and related jumping spiders from Australia, with five new species (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae) PECKHAMIA 103.1, 2 November 2012, 1―81 ISSN 2161―8526 (print) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F5DA5408-ABD7-4BFF-98E8-7AF731EA8B8E [registered 26 OCT 2012] ISSN 1944―8120 (online)