Trite

Trite
T. planiceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Trite Simon, 1885
Type species
Trite pennata Simon, 1885
Species
see text
Diversity
21 species

Trite is a genus of jumping spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1885.¹ Most of the 18 described species occur in Australia and New Zealand, with several spread over islands of Oceania, one species even reaching Rapa in French Polynesia.²

According to the World Spider Catalog in October 2018, there were twenty one recognised species:²

• Trite albopilosa (Keyserling, 1883) – New South Wales, Victoria
• Trite auricoma (Urquhart, 1886) – New Zealand
• Trite caledoniensis Patoleta, 2014 – New Caledonia
• Trite concinna Rainbow, 1920 – Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island
• Trite gracilipalpis Berland, 1929 – Loyalty Islands
• Trite grayi Richardson, 2016 – Lord Howe Islands
• Trite guilberti Patoleta, 2014 – New Caledonia
• Trite herbigrada (Urquhart, 1889) – New Zealand
• Trite ignipilosa Berland, 1924 – New Caledonia
• Trite lineata Simon, 1885 – New Caledonia
• Trite longipalpis Marples, 1955 – Samoa, Tonga
• Trite mustilina (Powell, 1873) – New Zealand
• Trite ornata Rainbow, 1915 – South Australia
• Trite parvula (Bryant, 1935) – New Zealand
• Trite pennata Simon, 1885 – New Caledonia
• Trite planiceps Simon, 1899 – New Zealand
• Trite pollardi Patoleta & Żabka, 2017 – New Zealand
• Trite ponapensis Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997 – Caroline Islands
• Trite rapaensis Berland, 1942 – Rapa
• Trite simoni Patoleta, 2014 – New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands
• Trite urvillei (Dalmas, 1917) – New Zealand