Australomimetus mendicus

Australomimetus mendicus
Conservation status
Not Threatened (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Mimetidae
Genus:	Australomimetus
Species:	A. mendicus
Binomial name
Australomimetus mendicus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1880)
Synonyms
Mimetus mendicus Mimetus atri-cinctus

Australomimetus mendicus is a species of Mimetidae that is endemic to New Zealand. ^[1]

Taxonomy

This species was described as Mimetus mendicus in 1880 by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge. ^[2] It was most recently transferred to the Australomimetus in 2009. ^[3]

Description

The cephalothorax is orange to yellow coloured with a black marking dorsally. Similarly, the legs are orange with black bands. The abdomen has a mottled black, red and white pattern. ^[4]

Distribution

This species is known from both islands of New Zealand. ^[4]

Conservation status

Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Not Threatened". ^[5]

References

1. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
2. Cambridge, O. P. (1880). "7. On some new and rare Spiders from New Zealand, with Characters of four new Genera" . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 47 (1): 681–703. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1879.tb02701.x. ISSN   0370-2774.
3. Harms, D; Harvey, M (2009). "Australian pirates: systematics and phylogeny of the Australasian pirate spiders (Araneae: Mimetidae), with a description of the Western Australian fauna" . Invertebrate Systematics. 23 (3): 231–280. doi:10.1071/is08015.
4. Chamberlain, G (1946). "Revision of the Araneae of New Zealand. Part II". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 3: 85–97.
5. Sirvid, P. J.; Vink, C. J.; Fitzgerald, B. M.; Wakelin, M. D.; Rolfe, J.; Michel, P. (2020-01-01). "Conservation status of New Zealand Araneae (spiders), 2020" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 34: 1–37.