Ocrisiona Explained

Ocrisiona is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.^[1] O. frenata from Hong Kong belongs to a different, unspecified genus, according to Marek Żabka (1990). Eugene Simon places the genus Ocrisiona close to Holoplatys.^[2]

Species

it contains thirteen species, found in China, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Australia:^[3]

• Ocrisiona aerata (L. Koch, 1879) – Australia (Queensland)
• Ocrisiona cinerea (L. Koch, 1879) – New Zealand
• Ocrisiona eucalypti Zabka, 1990 – Australia (Queensland)
• Ocrisiona koahi Zabka, 1990 – Australia (Queensland)
• Ocrisiona leucocomis (L. Koch, 1879) (type) – Australia, New Zealand
• Ocrisiona liturata (L. Koch, 1879) – Australia (Queensland)
• Ocrisiona melancholica (L. Koch, 1879) – Eastern Australia, Lord Howe Is.
• Ocrisiona melanopyga Simon, 1901 – Australia (Tasmania)
• Ocrisiona parallelestriata (L. Koch, 1879) – Australia (Queensland)
• Ocrisiona parmeliae Zabka, 1990 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Ocrisiona suilingensis Peng, Liu & Kim, 1999 – China
• Ocrisiona victoriae Zabka, 1990 – Australia (Victoria)
• Ocrisiona yakatunyae Zabka, 1990 – Australia (Western Australia)

Transferred to other genera:

• Ocrisiona jovialis (L. Koch, 1879) → Apricia jovialis
• Ocrisiona frenata (Simon, 1901) → Kelawakaju frenata

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E. 1901. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973. Eugène Simon.
2. Book: Murphy. Frances. Murphy. John. 2000 . An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur. Malaysian Nature Society. 978-983-9681-17-8. amp. 275.
3. Gen. Ocrisiona Simon, 1901. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-08-26. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.