''Pristobaeus vitiensis'' 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 vitiensis'' when ''Palpelius'' was accepted as the junior synonym for ''Pristobaeus''.

Description

The species is small with a grey abdomen and 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 vitiensis'' is found in

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

. 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 Viti Levu, after which the species is named.

References

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