Holoplatys

Holoplatys is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

Description

Holoplatys have a long, flat, oval cephalothorax, which is truncated anteriorly, and a long, flat, oval abdomen. They are often found under the bark of trees, especially eucalyptus. They have a resemblance to Marpissa.^[1]

Species

• Holoplatys apressus (Powell, 1873) – New Zealand
• Holoplatys bicolor Simon, 1901 – Queensland, Western Australia
• Holoplatys bicoloroides Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
• Holoplatys borali Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
• Holoplatys braemarensis Zabka, 1991 – Queensland
• Holoplatys bramptonensis Zabka, 1991 – Queensland
• Holoplatys canberra Zabka, 1991 – Australian Capital Territory
• Holoplatys carolinensis Berry, Beatty & Prószynski, 1996 – Caroline Islands
• Holoplatys chudalupensis Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
• Holoplatys colemani Zabka, 1991 – Queensland, New South Wales
• Holoplatys complanata (L. Koch, 1879) – Queensland, Northern Territory, New Guinea
• Holoplatys complanatiformis Zabka, 1991 – Queensland, New South Wales
• Holoplatys daviesae Zabka, 1991 – Queensland, New South Wales
• Holoplatys dejongi Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
• Holoplatys desertina Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia, South Australia
• Holoplatys digitatus Zhang et al., 2017 – South China and Thailand
• Holoplatys embolica Zabka, 1991 – Queensland
• Holoplatys fusca (Karsch, 1878) – Western Australia to Queensland
• Holoplatys grassalis Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
• Holoplatys invenusta (L. Koch, 1879) – Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria
• Holoplatys jardinensis Zabka, 1991 – Queensland, New Guinea
• Holoplatys julimarina Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
• Holoplatys kalgoorlie Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
• Holoplatys kempensis Zabka, 1991 – Northern Territory
• Holoplatys lhotskyi Zabka, 1991 – Queensland, Tasmania
• Holoplatys mascordi Zabka, 1991 – New South Wales, South Australia
• Holoplatys meda Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
• Holoplatys minuta Zabka, 1991 – Queensland
• Holoplatys oakensis Zabka, 1991 – Queensland
• Holoplatys panthera Zabka, 1991 – South Australia
• Holoplatys pedder Zabka, 1991 – Tasmania
• Holoplatys pemberton Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia
• Holoplatys planissima (L. Koch, 1879) – Western Australia to Queensland
  • Holoplatys planissima occidentalis Thorell, 1890 – Sumatra
• Holoplatys queenslandica Zabka, 1991 – Queensland, New Guinea
• Holoplatys rainbowi Zabka, 1991 – Queensland
• Holoplatys semiplanata Zabka, 1991 – Eastern Australia, New Caledonia
• Holoplatys strzeleckii Zabka, 1991 – South Australia, Tasmania
• Holoplatys tasmanensis Zabka, 1991 – Tasmania
• Holoplatys windjanensis Zabka, 1991 – Western Australia

Footnotes

References

• Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
• Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.