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Periegops Australia
''Periegops australia'' is a species of spider in the genus ''Periegops'' that is endemic to South East Queensland in Australia.Forster, R. R. (1995b). The Australasian spider family Periegopidae Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Sicarioidea). ''Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement'' 52: 91-105. Etymology The species name comes from the name of the continent of Australia, on which it is found. Taxonomy ''Periegops australia'' was described in 1995 by Ray Forster Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand arachnologist and museum director. He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of New Zealand. Biography Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, and was educat .... Description ''Periegops australia'', like other members of the ''Periegops'' genus, has only six eyes. Individuals have similar colouration to that found in '' P. suterii'', but the chevron patterns on the abdomen are more strongly pigemented. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Periegops
''Periegops'' is a genus of spiders with six eyes instead of the usual eight. It is the only genus in its Family (biology), family (Periegopidae) and has three described species. It was long considered to be members of Sicariidae or Segestriidae until Raymond Robert Forster, Raymond Forster elevated them to the family level in 1995. Taxonomy ''Periegops'' was first described in 1893 by Eugène Simon, Eugene Simon from a specimen of ''P. hirsutus'' (A synonym of ''P. suterii'').Simon, E. (1893a). ''Histoire naturelle das araignées''. Paris 1, 257-488. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 Description This genus of spider has only six eyes, as opposed to eight, which is typical for spiders. Body length varies from 5.9mm to 10mm depending on species and sex. Carapace is an orange colour and is darker on the anterior side. Abdomen is brown or creamy brown and usually have a chevron pattern. The family can be distinguished by the pattern of eye positions, which are in three clusters of two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South East Queensland
South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, metropolitan, political and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million people out of the state's population of 5.1 million. The area covered by South East Queensland varies, depending on the definition of the region, though it tends to include Queensland's three largest cities: the capital city Brisbane; the Gold Coast; and the Sunshine Coast. Its most common use is for political purposes, and covers and incorporates 11 local government areas, extending from Noosa in the north to the Gold Coast and New South Wales border in the south (some sources include Tweed Heads, New South Wales which is contiguous as an urban area with Brisbane/Gold Coast), and west to Toowoomba (which is simultaneously considered part of the Darling Downs region). South East Queensland was the first part of Queensland to be settled and explored by Europeans. Settlements initially aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Forster
Raymond Robert Forster (19 June 1922 – 1 July 2000) was a New Zealand arachnologist and museum director. He was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of New Zealand. Biography Forster was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1922, and was educated at Victoria University College, gaining BSc, MSc(Hons) and DSc degrees. Forster was an entomologist at the National Museum in Wellington from 1940 to 1947, with an interruption for military service during World War II. Between 1942 and 1945 he served first in the army and then as a naval radar mechanic.Ray Forster obituary . International Society of Arachnology. Retrieved 14 February 2013. He was appointed zoologist and assistant director at Canterbury Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Periegops Suterii
''Periegops suterii'' is a species of spider in the genus ''Periegops'' that is Endemism, endemic to the South Island of New Zealand.Vink, CJ; Dupérré, N; Malumbres-Olarte, J 2013. Periegopidae (Arachnida: Araneae). ''Fauna of New Zealand 70'', 41 pages. Taxonomy ''Periegops suteria'' was first described in 1892 by Arthur T Urquhart and was placed in the ''Segestria (spider), Segestria'' genus''.'' Specimens for this description were collected from Port Hills near Christchurch. Independently, Eugène Simon, Eugene Simon described ''Periegops hirsutus'' in 1893, which was also the first description of the ''Periegops genus''. In 1935, ''Segestria suteria'' was moved to the ''Periegops'' genus by Elizabeth B. Bryant, Elizabeth Bangs Bryant after examining Type (biology), types sent to her from the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, Canterbury Museum. In 1946, ''P. hirsutus'' was recognized as a synonym of ''P. suterii'' by George Chamberlain. Description Like all members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Periegopidae
''Periegops'' is a genus of spiders with six eyes instead of the usual eight. It is the only genus in its family (Periegopidae) and has three described species. It was long considered to be members of Sicariidae or Segestriidae until Raymond Forster elevated them to the family level in 1995. Taxonomy ''Periegops'' was first described in 1893 by Eugene Simon from a specimen of ''P. hirsutus'' (A synonym of ''P. suterii'').Simon, E. (1893a). ''Histoire naturelle das araignées''. Paris 1, 257-488. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 Description This genus of spider has only six eyes, as opposed to eight, which is typical for spiders. Body length varies from 5.9mm to 10mm depending on species and sex. Carapace is an orange colour and is darker on the anterior side. Abdomen is brown or creamy brown and usually have a chevron pattern. The family can be distinguished by the pattern of eye positions, which are in three clusters of two eyes. Species , the World Spider Catalog The World S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiders Of Asia
Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all Order (biology), orders of organisms. Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica, and have become established in nearly every land habitat. , 50,356 spider species in 132 Family (biology), families have been recorded by Taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. However, there has been debate among scientists about how families should be classified, with over 20 different classifications proposed since 1900. Anatomically, spiders (as with all arachnids) differ from other arthropods in that the usual body segmentation (biology), segments are fused into two Tagma (biology), tagmata, the cephalothorax or prosoma, and the opisthosoma, or abdomen, and joined by a small, cylindrical Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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