Poecilipta Explained

Poecilipta is a genus of South Pacific corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1897.^[1]

Species

it contains twenty-seven species in Australia, and one on New Caledonia:^[2]

• Poecilipta carnarvon Raven, 2015 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Poecilipta contorqua Raven, 2015 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Poecilipta davidi Raven, 2015 – Australia (South Australia)
• Poecilipta elvis Raven, 2015 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Poecilipta formiciforme (Rainbow, 1904) – Australia (New South Wales)
• Poecilipta gloverae Raven, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
• Poecilipta harveyi Raven, 2015 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Poecilipta janthina Simon, 1896 (type) – Australia (Queensland)
• Poecilipta jilbadji Raven, 2015 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Poecilipta kgari Raven, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
• Poecilipta kohouti Raven, 2015 – Australia (Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales)
• Poecilipta lugubris Raven, 2015 – Australia (New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory)
• Poecilipta mandjelia Raven, 2015 – New Caledonia
• Poecilipta marengo Raven, 2015 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Poecilipta metallica Raven, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
• Poecilipta micaelae Raven, 2015 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Poecilipta qunats Raven, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
• Poecilipta rawlinsonae Raven, 2015 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Poecilipta ruthae Santana & Raven, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
• Poecilipta samueli Raven, 2015 – Australia (Queensland)
• Poecilipta smaragdinea (Simon, 1909) – Australia (Western Australia)
• Poecilipta tinda Raven, 2015 – Australia (South Australia)
• Poecilipta venusta Rainbow, 1904 – Australia (Queensland to Victoria, South Australia)
• Poecilipta waldockae Raven, 2015 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Poecilipta wallacei Raven, 2015 – Australia (Western Australia to Queensland)
• Poecilipta yambuna Raven, 2015 – Australia (Victoria)
• Poecilipta zbigniewi Raven, 2015 – Australia (Tasmania)

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E. 1897. Histoire naturelle des araignées. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
2. Gen. Poecilipta Simon, 1897. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-22. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.