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Sittisax ranieri

(Peckham and Peckham, 1909)

a jumping spider

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Identity
Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.801161
Element CodeILARAC7040
Record TypeSPECIES
ClassificationSpecies
Classification StatusStandard
Name CategoryInvertebrate Animal
Endemicoccurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassArachnida
OrderAraneae
FamilySalticidae
GenusSittisax
Synonyms
Sitticus lineolatus(Gruce, 1861)Sitticus ranieri(Peckham and Peckham, 1909)
Other Common Names
Ranier's Patterned Jumping Spider (EN) Saltique de Ranier (FR) Tundra Jumping Spider (EN)
Concept Reference
Shorthouse, D. P., editor. 2007. The Nearctic Spider Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://canadianarachnology.webhop.net.
Taxonomic Comments
Genus Sittisax (Prószynski 2017) was removed from synonymy with Sitticus by Maddison et al. (2020). Breitling's (2019) synonymy of Sittisax with Sitticus was rejected by Maddison et al. (2020) based on phylogenetic results, which strongly support it as the sister group of Tomis.
Conservation Status
Rank MethodExpertise without calculation
Review Date2015-09-25
Change Date2015-09-25
Ecology & Habitat
Other Nations (2)
United StatesNNR
ProvinceRankNative
MontanaSNRYes
WyomingSNRYes
CanadaN5
ProvinceRankNative
Northwest TerritoriesS3Yes
NunavutSUYes
Island of NewfoundlandSUYes
New BrunswickSUYes
Yukon TerritoryS4Yes
British ColumbiaS5Yes
SaskatchewanSUYes
ManitobaS4Yes
AlbertaS4Yes
QuebecSNRYes
Roadless Areas (1)
Montana (1)
AreaForestAcres
Thompson Seton RA 1483Flathead National Forest52,235
References (8)
  1. Breene, R.G., D.A. Dean, G.B. Edwards, B. Hebert, H.W. Levi, G. Manning, K. McWest, and L. Sorkin. 2003. Common names of Arachnids 2003. 5th edition. The American Arachnological Society Committee on Common Names of Arachnids. American Tarantula Society.
  2. Breitling, R. 2019. Barcode taxonomy at the genus level. Ecologica Montegrina 21:17–37.
  3. Maddison, W. P., D. R. Maddison, S. Derkarabetian, and M. Hedin. 2020. Sitticine jumping spiders: phylogeny, classification, and chromosomes (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticini). ZooKeys 925:1-54.
  4. Paquin, P., D. J. Buckle, N. Duperre, and C. D. Dondale. 2010. Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Canada and Alaska. Zootaxa 2461:1-170.
  5. Prószynski, J. 2017. Revision of the genus <i>Sitticus </i>Simon, 1901 sl (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 10:35-50.
  6. Shorthouse, D. P., editor. 2007. The Nearctic Spider Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://canadianarachnology.webhop.net.
  7. World Spider Catalog (WSC). 2018. World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Online. Available: http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 19.0
  8. World Spider Catalog (WSC). 2020. World Spider Catalog. Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at https://wsc.nmbe.ch/