''Pristobaeus vanuaensis'' is a jumping spider species in the genus '' Pristobaeus''. The female was first identified in 2008 by

Barbara Maria Patoleta Barbara Maria Patoleta is a Polish arachnologist who specialises in the taxonomy, evolution and zoogeography of jumping spiders (family Salticidae) in the Pacific Islands. Education Patoleta studied biology and chemistry at high school before st ...

. The species was initially placed in the genus ''Palpelius'' but was renamed ''Pristobaeus vanuaensis'' when ''Palpelius'' was accepted as the junior synonym for ''Pristobaeus''.

Description

The species is small and brown, with a

cephalothorax The cephalothorax, also called prosoma in some groups, is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind. (The terms ''prosoma'' and ''opisthosoma'' are equivalent to ''cepha ...

typically measuring long.

Distribution

''Pristobaeus vanuaensis'' is found in Fiji. The

holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of several ...

was discovered on the island of Vanua Levu, after which the species is named.

References

Spiders of Fiji Salticidae Spiders described in 2008 Taxa named by Barbara Maria Patoleta {{Salticidae-stub