World Spider Catalog

Genus: Prostheclina Keyserling, 1882 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Prostheclina boreoaitha Richardson & Żabka, 2007

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041250

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (Queensland)

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS), Australia m (KS45747) - (Richardson, 2022a)

Taxonomic References

Prostheclina boreoaitha Richardson & Żabka, 2007: 90, f. 3D, 9A-B (Dm) Original description

Prostheclina boreoaitha Richardson, 2022a: 264, f. 61-66 (Df)

References

Richardson, B. J. & Żabka, M. (2007). A revision of the Australian jumping spider genus Prostheclina Keyserling, 1892 (Araneae: Salticidae). Records of the Australian Museum 59(1): 79-96. doi: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.59.2007.1471 -- Show included taxa

Richardson, B. J. (2022a). Additions to the euophryine jumping spider fauna (Araneae: Salticidae) of Australia. Zootaxa 5141(3): 249-269. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5141.3.3 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-05-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Richardson, 2022a
2022-05-26	First description of female	Richardson, 2022a	Old value