© The Author, 2014. Journal compilation © Australian Museum, Sydney, 2014 
Records of the Australian Museum (2014) Vol. 66, issue number 4, pp. 217-223. 
ISSN 0067-1975 (print), ISSN 2201-4349 (online) 
http://dx.doi.org/! 0.3853/j .2201 -4349.66.2014.1599 
Maddisonia —A New Jumping Spider 
Genus from Australia 
(Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) 
Marek Zabka 
Department of Zoology, Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, 
08-110 Siedlce, Poland 
marekzabka@uph. edu. pi 
Abstract. The genus Maddisonia is described from Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia 
to include three new species: M. richardsoni, M. whytei and M. berbekai. Maddisonia richardsoni is 
designated the type species. 
Keywords: Salticidae; new genus; new species; jumping spiders; taxonomy. 
Zabka, Marek. 2014. Maddisonia — a new jumping spider genus from Australia (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae). 
Records of the Australian Museum 66(4): 217-223. 
According to the official databases, 81 genera and about 364 
species of Saticidae are known from Australia (Richardson 
& Zabka, 2011; Platnick, 2014). The lists, however, are 
far from being complete. The generic revisions published 
over the last decades have revealed great species diversity; 
in many cases several times larger than expected. The 
genera Opisthoncus, Prostheclina, Lycidas, Maratus, Neon, 
Clynotis, Cosmophasis, Cytaea, Prostheclina or the Astieae 
group are the best examples of this phenomenon (Wanless, 
1988; Richardson & Zabka, 2007; Richardson, 2013; Zabka 
& Waldock, 2012; Waldock, unpubl.; Zabka, unpubl.). The 
potential sources of new taxa are poorly studied inland and 
tropical areas (see predictions by Richardson et al, 2006). 
At the moment the genus Maddisonia comprises only 
three species, although future research may reveal greater 
diversity. 
Material and methods 
The material for this study was provided by the curators of the 
Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS), Queensland Museum, 
Brisbane (QMB) and Western Australian Museum, Perth 
(WAMP). The types are deposited in original collections. 
Methods of specimen examination are as described by 
Zabka (1991). Photographs were taken with a Canon A620 
camera and Nikon 800 stereomicroscope, and digitally 
processed with ZoomBrowser and HeliconFocus software. 
