Salticidae of the Antarctic land bridge

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Peckhamia 76.1 Salticidae of the Antarctic land bridge 1
PECKHAMIA 76.1, 7 October 2009, 1―14 ISSN 1944―8120
Salticidae of the Antarctic land bridge
David Edwin Hill 1
1213 Wild Horse Creek Drive, Simpsonville, South Carolina 29680
Introduction
At the breakup of Gondwanaland (~130―110 Ma), Africa, India, and Madagascar moved away from South
America and Antarctica, with Australia still firmly conjoined to the latter (Figure 1). This movement left
South America connected to Antarctica―Australia by a long isthmus (Ithmus of Scotia) of the southern
Andes, at least from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) through the Eocene (Yanbin 1998, Lawver et al.
1999, Sanmartín 2002). This Antarctic land bridge remained in place from the late Cretaceous through
the Paleocene (65.5 ± 0.3 Ma to 55.8 ± 0.2 Ma) and Eocene (55.8 ± 0.2 to 33.9 ± 0.1 Ma) epochs. At times
it may have included short island arcs at either the Australian (Tasmanian) or South American ends. This
land bridge, associated with a tropical to temperate Antarctic climate (Francis et al. 2008), was thus
available to support the dispersal of plant and animal species for about 75 to 95 million years after the
separation of Africa, a very long time. One very interesting aspect about this interval is that it also
brackets the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous. According to Penney et al. (2003),
however, that event did nothing to reduce the diversity of spiders as a group.
Figure 1. Cretaceous (top) and Eocene
(bottom) reconstructions of Earth
topography and bathymetry. Although
these reconstructions provide a good
view of the separation of Africa,
Madagascar, and India from the rest of
Gondwanaland, they do not depict the
land connections beween Antarctica
and either South America, or Australia,
respectively, that are thought to have
persisted well into the Eocene (Yanbin
1998, Lawver et al. 1999, Sanmartín
2002, Francis et al. 2008, and others).
© by Ron Blakely, NAU Geology.
Noncommercial use with attribution
permitted.

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Near the end of the Eocene, at the Eocene―Oligocene boundary, the Australian plate, including New
Guinea, separated from Antarctica and began its long journey toward the north. This opened up the
Tasmanian Seaway, allowing the cold Antarctic Circumpolar Current to isolate Antarctica, leading to the
formation of a permanent ice sheet over that continent by ~33.5 Ma (Exon et al. 2000, 2004, Pollard and
DeConto 2005). Whether this opening, and the subsequent opening of the Drake Passage between South
America and Antarctica (Bohoyo et al. 2007, Maldonado et al. 2007, Miller 2007, Smalley et al. 2007,
Eagles et al. 2009), can fully account for the rapid cooling of Antarctica at the end of the Eocene is still an
open question, and the decline in atmospheric CO2 at that time may have been more important (DeConto
and Pollard 2003, Huber et al. 2004, Barker and Thomas 2004, Livermore et al. 2004, Barker et al. 2006).
Ocean floor presently separating South America and Tasmania, respectively, from Antarctica was
deposited after this time, beginning at the Eocene―Oligocene boundary (Torsvik et al., 2008). In any case,
rapid cooling did follow the end of the Antarctic land bridge between Australia and South America, and
contributed to the subsequent isolation of the two great continental faunas. The Eocene was followed by
more extensive cooling and the growth of ice sheets in the Oligocene (Miller et al. 2008). For reference,
Lawver et al. (1999) provide a useful animated reconstruction of the breakup of Gondwanaland, and both
Brown et al. (2006) and Torsvik et al. (2008) have published plate tectonic reconstructions (maps) of the
entire Cenozoic transition around Antarctica. The age of the oceanic lithosphere (Figure 2) provides a
concise graphic overview of the timing of separation of the continents since the break-up of Pangaea
(~175 Ma).
Figure 2. Age of the ocean lithosphere (Ma). Image created by Elliot Lim, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) Marine Geology and Geophysics Division. Data and images available
from http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/. Data Source Müller et al. (2008).
A south-polar view of this chart (Figure 3) also depicts the relatively recent (since the Eocene ~33 Ma)
separation of Antarctica from Australia (upper right, Tasmania) and South America (lower left, Andes to
Transantarctic Range). Also note the extensive sea-floor spreading (green areas) to the left, between
Antarctica and Africa (upper left), and between South America and Africa, associated with the early
break-up of Gondwana (~130—110 Ma).
million years (Ma)
280
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260

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Although much of present-day Antarctica. particularly in the West (Western Hemisphere), is below sea-
level (Figure 4), models of the Eocene―Oligocene transition that have been corrected for thermal
contraction resulting from tectonic extension and for erosion and sedimentation since 34 Ma indicate that
most of Western Antarctica was actually above sea level at that time (Wilson and Luyendyk 2009). Even
after more extensive glaciation in the Miocene (Jamieson and Sugden 2008), a tundra habitat persisted in
Antarctica as recently as 14.1―13.8 Ma (Lewis et al. 2008).
280 20 40
0 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 220 240 260
million years (Ma)
Figure 3. Age of the ocean lithosphere, from a south
polar view with Antarctica at the center. Australia is to
the upper right, South America to the lower left, and
Africa to the upper left. Sea-floor spreading in green is
primarily associated with the break-up of Gondwana.
Note the presence of an earlier rift to the south of
Australia, before later sea-floor spreading separated
Tasmania from Antarctica. Sea-floor spreading between
the southern Andes of South America and the
Transantarctic Range also took place primarily in the
post-Eocene timeframe. Images by R. D. Müller and P. W.
Sloss, NOAA-NESDIS-NGDC. Data and images available
from http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov / mgg/ . Data Source
Müller et al. (2008).
Figure 4. Subglacial topography and bathymetry of
Antarctica. Although much of Western (Western
Hemphere, to the left) Antarctica is now below sea level,
corrected models now indicate that most of this area was
above sea level in the Eocene (Wilson and Luyendyk
2009). At upper left, the long Transantarctic Mountain
Range approaches the southern Andes of South America.
© by Paul V. Heinrich. Use subject to Creative Commons
Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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The Antarctic climate during this transition is of great interest. Studies of plant fossils indicate that a
tropical to subtropical climate dominated during the late Cretaceous (85 Ma), with a mean summer
temperature of about 20oC (Francis et al. 2008). After some cooling, a generally warm, ice-free period
continued through the Paleocene, with some warming in the early Eocene. By the late Eocene, the climate
was much cooler, and temperate forests were dominated by Southern Beech (Nothofagus, with living
species in Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Chile and Argentina), and
monkey puzzle trees similar to living Araucaria araucama (Cantrill and Poole 2005, Poole and Cantrill
2006, Francis et al. 2008, Jamieson and Sugden 2008). Araucaria species are now found in New
Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Australia, New Guinea, Argentina, Chile, and southern Brazil. Fossil marsupials,
related to those presently found in South America, have recently been reported from Antarctic rocks of
Eocene age (Woodburne and Zinsmeister 1982, Goin et al. 1999, 2007, Beck et al. 2008). There is even
good reason to believe that at least four endemic species of Antarctic springtails (Collembola) represent a
continuous Gondwanan line of descent that diversified in Antarctica during the mid- to late Miocene,
21―11 Ma (Stevens et al. 2006). Based on the requirements of modern salticids, we can safely say that
the Antarctic land bridge could have easily supported a diverse array of salticids during its long existence,
particularly up to the late Eocene.
For ease of reference, I will refer to the joined continents of Australia, Antarctica, and South America
collectively as Australamerica (late Gondwana). To find Australamerican clades that used the Antarctic
land bridge, we can look for groups that meet the following conditions: 1, The clade had to originate in
Australamerica, during the long time period of its existence (~130―34 Ma). 2, Sister groups within the
clade can now be found in both Australia and South America (at least in fossil form). 3, The presence of
members of the clade in other areas, if applicable, can be explained by secondary migration from either
Australia or South America.
The relationship of the Australian to the South American fauna, particularly with respect to the
distribution of marsupial mammals, has been long recognized. Most early explanations for this
relationship, before the current acceptance of continental drift and plate tectonics, were awkward, and
have little or no support today. As early as 1924, however, Launcelot Harris presented a very bold and
determined argument in support of the migration of marsupials directly over an Antarctic land bridge.
Several other groups of animals that, based on criteria 1―3, above, may be characterized as native
Australamericans, are identified in Table 1.
Table 1. Some clades of apparent Australamerican origin that appear to have migrated across the Antarctic land bridge before
their more recent diversification within continental boundaries.
Clade Australian sister group South American sister
group
Gondwanan outgroup
(more ancient clade)
References
Mammalia:
Marsupalia
(part)
all Australian
marsupials
all South American
marsupials
Mammalia: Marsupalia Woodburne and Zinsmeister
1982, Goin et al. 1999, Luo et al.
2003, Nilsson et al. 2004, Goin et
al. 2007, Beck et al. 2008
Aves:
Struthioniformes
(part)
Emu (Dromaius),
Cassowary (Casuarius),
Kiwi (Apteryx)
Tinamiformes:
Crypturellus, Eudromia,
Nothoprocta, Tinamus
Struthioniformes,
including African
Ostrich (Struthio)
van Tuinen et al. 1998, Cooper et
al. 2001, Gibb et al. 2007, Hackett
et al. 2008, Harshman et al. 2008
Testudines:
Chelidae
all Australian chelids all South American
chelids
Pleurodira, including
Podocnemidae and
Pelomedusidae
Gaffney 1977, Fujita et al. 2004,
Krenz et al. 2005
Anura: Hylidae
(part)
all Pelodryadinae all Phyllomedusinae Hylidae, including
Hylinae (Hyla)
Faivovich et al. 2005, Frost et al.
2006, Zeisset and Beebee 2008
Of these groups, the timing of the diversification of the Marsupalia (late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic)
has received the most attention, and is fully in line with the hypothesis of Australamerican origin for the

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living species (Nilsson et al. 2004). This does not require that the first marsupial was Australamerican,
however (Luo et al. 2003). Recent work (Hackett et al. 2008, Harshman et al. 2008) places the flying
neotropical Tinamous (Tinamiformes) as a sister group to living flightless birds of Australia, New Guinea,
and New Zealand. South American Rheas (Rhea and Pterocnemia) are more closely related to this group
than the Ostrich (Struthio), and at least one view (Harshman et al. 2008, Fig. 2) supports the possibility of
a closer relationship between the Rheas and the Tinamiformes. The Kiwi (Apteryx) appears to have
arrived in New Zealand later than the extinct Moas, and is not closely related (Cooper et al. 2001). Chelid
fossils have never been found outside of Australamerica.
I know of no salticid spiders, living or fossil, that have ever been found in Antarctica. Yet it is quite
possible that a diverse population of salticids, ancestral to at least some of those that we can find today in
Australia and the Americas, did live in Australamerica, and were of Australamerican origin. Assuming
that Australasian ancestors (or clades based on these ancestors and their descendents) did exist, our
challenge lies in finding the corresponding clades among the known Salticidae.
Prehistory of the Salticidae
As noted by Hill and Richman (2009), the fossil record for the Salticidae is indeed sparse, and is limited to
the Cenozoic. Some of the fossils that have been found are reviewed in Table 2.
Table 2. Some fossil salticid genera. Under each description, similar recent salticids are identified in some cases in
parentheses.
Era/Epoch Locality and Source Description References
Eocene
~54―42 Ma
Baltic Sea: Baltic
Amber
Gorgopsina (~hisponine), Prolinus (~hisponine),
Eolinus (~Cyrba, Portia), Paralinus (~spartaeine?),
Almolinus, Cenattus, Distanilinus
Prószyński and Żabka 1980, Keiser
and Weitschat 2006, Maddison and
Zhang 2006, Dunlop et al. 2009,
Wolfe et al. 2009
Oligocene to
Miocene
~30―20 Ma
Chiapas, Mexico:
Chiapas Amber
Lyssomanes García-Villafuerte and Penney 2003
Miocene
~20―15 Ma
Dominican Republic:
Dominican Amber
Lyssomanes, Nebridia, Thiodina, Corythalia,
Descangeles, Descanso, Pensacolatus
Cutler 1984, Iturralde-Vinet and
MacPhee 1996, Dunlop et al. 2009
Given our necessary reliance on fossil amber, we need to recognize that the absence of a group from that
record does not establish the fact that this group did not exist. It may simply mean that members of this
group did not live on the trunks of trees that produced that amber, or that, for behavioral reasons, that
group was not likely to be captured in amber. For example, Penney (2007) has reported an unusual lack
of any salticid fossils from a deposit of lower Eocene amber in the Paris Basin (France). Although this
finding is consistent with the hypothesis that salticids did not occur in Europe until later in the Eocene, it
does little to establish that hypothesis as credible. In addition, we have not found any definitive
intermediate fossils, or proto-salticids, to clarify the evolution of the family.
Żabka (1995) referred to the major influence of continental isolation in the distribution of major salticid
groups that appeared to become highly diversified in the late Cretaceous to Eocene period. However, we
have no Cretaceous or Paleocene fossils from this group to support any hypotheses related to their
radiation. From the few available records (Table 2), we may assume that a diverse group that included
hisponines and possibly spartaeines (or their close relatives), not greatly different from existing species in
Africa or Asia, could be found in a much warmer northern Europe during the Eocene. For much of this
time the climate there was paratropical (Andreasson and Schmitz 2000, Harrington 2001, Kvaček 2002,
Huber and Caballero 2003). About 20 My later, by the early Miocene, we find an essentially modern fauna
on a Caribbean island. We have no transitional records to explain the emergence of diversity in either

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area. With few fossil records, however, hypotheses relative to the Salticidae of Australamerica will have to
rely primarily on the current distribution of salticids, and their known (or supported) phylogeny. For
example, with the current center of hisponine diversity in Africa (Maddison and Needham 2006,
Maddison and Zhang 2006), the presence of Eocene hisponine fossils in Europe, and the lack of
hisponines in Australia and the Americas, it is possible that this group evolved in the Laurasia-African
supercontinent in a post-Gondwana time frame. Given the diversity of spartaeines in Southeast Asia
(Wijesinghe 1990), it is likewise tempting to think that this group also evolved in Laurasia-Africa.
However, as we will discuss below, there is also some evidence for a post-Australamerican origin for this
group, from Australasian ancestors. It is important to note that all living salticids, whether basal or
salticoid (Maddison and Hedin 2006), still represent modern groups. Within the Salticidae, although
some groups have been termed primitive, evolution proceeds in many directions, and there has been
more than one line of descent leading to either an increase in the acuity of the anterior medial eyes, or to
reduction of the posterior medial eyes (Blest 1983, Blest and Sigmund 1984, 1985, Blest et al. 1990, Hill
and Richman 2009).
It has been notoriously difficult to pinpoint the time of emergence of any major group from the fossil
record. Even well-known groups can turn out to be much more ancient than previously assumed (Table
3).
Table 3. Some new fossil discoveries that have pushed back the timeframe for emergence of respective animal groups.
Group Previous discoveries New discovery Reference
Age Formation Age Formation
Mammalia:
Metatheria or near-
marsupials
~75 Ma
(skeletal)
~125 Ma Lower Cretaceous Yixian
Formation, China.
Luo et al. 2003
Sauria: feathered
theropod
~150―145 Ma Jurassic Solnhofen
Limestone in Bavaria
(Archaeopteryx)
~160 Ma Earliest Late Jurassic
Tiaojishan Formation of
western Liaoning, China
Hu et al. 2009
Testudines: Chelidae ~23―5 Ma Miocene (?) and later
fossils from Australia
and South America
~105 Ma Lower Cretaceous (Lower
Albian), Patagonia
Lapparent de Broin
and de la Fuente
2001; see also de la
Fuente 2003
Squamata:
Gekkonidae
~54―42 Ma Eocene Baltic amber 110―97 Ma Lower Cretaceous (Albian)
amber from Myanmar
Bauer et al. 2005,
Arnold and Poinar
2008
Araneae: Araneidae ~45 Ma Middle Eocene oil
shales of the Messel
pit, Hesse, Germany
121―115 Ma Lower Cretaceous (Aptian)
amber from Alava, Spain
Penney 2003, Penney
and Ortuño 2006; see
also Peñalver et al.
2006, 2007
Araneae: Dipluridae ~54―42 Ma Eocene Baltic amber 125―112 Ma Lower Cretaceous (Aptian)
Crato Lagerstätte of Cearà
Province, north-east Brazil
Seldon et al. 2006
Araneae:
Linyphiidae
~54―42 Ma Eocene Baltic amber 135―125 Ma Lower Cretaceous (Upper
Neocomian–basal Lower
Aptian) amber, Kdeirji/
Hammana outcrop,
Lebanon
Penney and Selden
2002
Araneae:
Mecysmaucheniidae
Recent Living species found in
southern South
America and New
Zealand
~100 Ma Lower Cretaceous (Late
Albian) amber of Charente-
Maritime, France
Saupe and Seldon
2009
Araneae: Pisauridae ~54―42 Ma Eocene Baltic amber 107―100 Ma Lower Cretaceous (Albian)
amber from Myanmar
Penney 2004

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As noted by Seldon et al. (2009), almost every new specimen of spider from the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic
eras . . . can drastically alter our perception of spider phylogeny. Proposed molecular clocks for
evolutionary sequences are often based on synchronization with the fossil record, and these have to be
reset when discoveries of earlier forms upset the underlying assumptions. The lack of fossil markers for
salticids, in particular, makes this task even more challenging. When we examine the fossil record for
emergence of a clade, we need to be cautious, given the fact that one or several uncommon, early
representatives of that clade may have been evolving in relative isolation, or in a different area for a long
time. Thus available fossils only set an upper bound for emergence, and with new fossil discoveries we
can only expect that this bound will move lower, to an earlier time.
Some hypotheses related to the origin of the Salticidae, and the large salticoid clade, are outlined in Table 4.
Table 4. Some major, alternative hypotheses and associated predictions related to the origin of major salticid clades. All are
consistent with the fossil record. Hypotheses 1—5 relate to origin of the Salticidae, 6—10 to the origin of the Salticoida).
Hypothesis Predicted fossils Predicted faunal distribution
1
Salticidae originated before the break-up of
Pangaea into Gondwana and Laurasia ~150
—175 Ma
Basal Pangaean
lineages in
Gondwanan and
Laurasian fossils.
Major salticid lineages, except for relict groups, divided
across Gondwana and Laurasia, and subsequently divided
between Africa and Australamerica. Later lineages divided
between Australia and South America.
2
Salticidae originated in Laurasia after the
break-up of Pangaea ~150—175 Ma and
before the initial break-up of Gondwana
~130—110 Ma
Laurasian fossils
predate Gondwanan
fossils.
Basal lineages found in many non-glaciated Laurasian areas
as relict groups.
3
Salticidae originated in Gondwana after the
break-up of Pangaea ~150—175 Ma and
before the initial break-up of Gondwana
~130—110 Ma
Gondwanan fossils
predate Laurasian
fossils.
Basal lineages found in many non-glaciated Gonwanan
areas as relict groups.
4
Salticidae originated in Laurasia after the
initial break-up of Gondwana ~130—110
Ma, but before the break-up of Australasia
~35 Ma
Laurasian fossils
predate Gondwanan
fossils.
Basal lineages found in many non-glaciated Laurasian areas
as relict groups. Relict groups should also appear in Africa.
No endemic relict groups in Australamerica.
5
Salticidae originated in Australasia after the
initial break-up of Gondwana ~130—110
Ma, but before the break-up of Australasia
~35 Ma
Australasian fossils
predate any other
fossils.
Basal, relict groups primarily found in Australasia, in both
South America and Greater Australia. Most lineages in
Laurasia appear in post-Australasian timeframe, after
Australia and New Guinea approach Southeast Asia, or
through Central America-Caribbean archipelago migration.
6
Salticoida originated before the break-up of
Pangaea ~150—175 Ma
Diverse, Pangaean
salticoid lineages in
both Gondwanan and
Laurasian fossils.
Major salticoid lineages, except for relict groups, divided
across Gondwana and Laurasia, and subsequently divided
between Africa and Australamerica. Later lineages divided
between Australia and South America.
7
Salticoida originated in Laurasia after the
break-up of Pangaea ~150—175 Ma and
before the initial break-up of Gondwana
~130—110 Ma
Laurasian fossils
predate Gondwanan
fossils.
Each major Gondwanan salticoid lineage traced back to
more basal Laurasian groups.
8
Salticoida originated in Gondwana after the
break-up of Pangaea ~150—175 Ma and
before the initial break-up of Gondwana
~130—110 Ma
Gonwanan fossils
predate Laurasia
fossils.
Multiple Gondwanan lineages diverge in Africa and
Australamerica. these lineages diverge later between
Australia and South America.
9
Salticoida originated in Laurasia after the
initial break-up of Gondwana ~130—110
Ma, but before the break-up of Australasia
~35 Ma
Laurasian fossils
predate Gondwanan
fossils.
Multiple salticoid lineages can be traced from Laurasian
groups to groups in either Africa or Australasia. More early
salticoid lineages, and earlier fossils, in Africa than in
Australamerica.
10
Salticoida originated in Australasia after the
initial break-up of Gondwana ~130—110
Ma, but before the break-up of Australasia
~35 Ma
Australasian fossils
predate any other
fossils.
Multiple salticoid lineages can be traced from Australasian
origins, with primary branches split between South America
and Greater Australia.

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Unless many more fossils are discovered, any testing of these hypotheses must be based on the biogeography
and phylogeny of recent species. The great diversity of lineages crossing the Wallace Line (Southeast Asia into
the East Indies to New Guinea) is particularly problematic for this purpose, as these may have originated from
either the north (Laurasia) or from the south (Australamerica). A number of groups that are basal to both the
spartaeines and the salticoids (Tomocyrba, Massagris, hisponines, and perhaps Goleba; Maddison and Needham
2006, Maddison et al. 2008) in the recent Madagascar to East Africa fauna may support either a Pangaean
(hypothesis 1, above) or a Gondwanan (3) origin for the Salticidae. With respect to the origin of the Salticoida,
hypothesis (10) gets some support from the fact that one of the two major branches of the Salticoida, the almost
exclusively neotropical Amycoida (Maddison and Hedin 2003, Maddison et al. 2008), almost certainly has a
South American origin. The apparent failure of Amycoida to cross to Australia may be related to the fact that
these are primarily tropical salticids. The other major branch divided many times, and includes several major
groups that may have crossed the Antarctic land bridge (see below). The failure to find many salticids in early
Eocene Europe (Penney 2007), and no salticoids in later Eocene Europe (Table 2) is consistent with this
hypothesis. The Salticoida may have been largely confined to Australamerica in the Eocene, but we have no
salticid fossils of any kind with which to establish their presence. Again, we need to be very cautious in our
interpretation of a very fragmented, incomplete fossil record. We also must remember that even as diverse a
group as the Salticoida at one time consisted of a single species, a species that may have been neither widely
distributed nor abundant. It is almost certain that any important ancestor species like this would be
missing altogether from the fossil record. Only at a much later date, after it had diversified into a number
of competitive species, would there be any probability of a fossil presence. The relatively short interval
(~13—18 My) between the end of the Eocene and the emergence of modern neotropical genera, as well
the enormous diversity found within the major clades of modern salticoids, suggest that that there were a
number of salticoid species alive during the Eocene. These would include the ancestral species for the
major salticoid clades that we see today.
Tentative identification of some trans-Antarctic salticid clades
Some local or relatively endemic salticid groups from Greater Australia (including New Guinea) have been
matched with possible South American sister groups in Table 5.
Table 5. Some endemic or near-endemic salticid genera from greater Australia (including New Guinea) matched with possible
South American sister groups.
Clade Australian sister group South American sister group References
Spartaeinae
+ lapsiines
Spartaeinae: Mintonia, Portia lapsiines: Gallianora, Lapsias, Thrandina Maddison and Needham 2006,
Richardson 2006, Żabka 1994
Astioida +
Marpissoida
Astioida: Adoxotoma, Arasia, Astia,
Damoetas, Helpis, Holoplatys,
Jacksonoides, Ligonipes, Megaloastia,
Mopsolodes, Mopsus, Myrmarachne,
Ocrisiona, Opisthoncus, Rhombonotus,
Sandalodes, Simaetha, Simaethula,
Sondra, Tara, Tauala, Zebraplatys
Marpissoida: Beata, Bellota, Eris,
Hentzia, Itata, Maevia, Metacyrba,
Peckhamia, Psecas, Rhetenor, Rudra,
Sassacus, Tutelina, Zygoballus
Wanless 1988, Hedin and
Maddison 2001, Maddison and
Hedin 2003, Richardson et al.
2006, Maddison et al. 2008
Euophryinae Euophryinae (part): Ascyltus,
Athamas, Bathippus, Canama, Cytaea,
Ergane, Euryattus, Hypoblemum,
Jotus, Lauharulla, Lycidas, Maratus,
Margaromma, Prostheclina, Servaea,
Spilargus, Udvardya, Zenodorus
Euophryinae (part): Amphidraus,
Anasaitis, Asaphobelis, Belliena, Chapoda,
Chloridusa, Cobanus, Commoris,
Coryphasia, Corythalia, Ilargus, Maeota,
Mopiopia, Neonella, Ocnotelus, Pensacola,
Semnolius, Sidusa, Siloca, Stoidis, Tariona,
Tylogonus
Maddison and Hedin 2003,
Richardson et al. 2006,
Maddison et al. 2008, Hill 2009
Grayenulla +
Hisukattus
Grayenulla Żabka 1992: seven
species from Australia
Hisukattus Galiano 1987: four species
from Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay
Galiano 1987, Żabka 1992,
Żabka 2002, Żabka and Gray
2002, Richardson et al. 2006

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To identify clades that may have crossed the Antarctic land bridge, I began with an examination of the
Australian genera that do not appear to have migrated to that continent at a later time from southeast
Asia. Many of these genera are also endemic to New Zealand and can be grouped into two larger clades,
the Astioida (Maddison et al. 2008) and the Euophryinae (Prószyński 1976). Note that the clades divided
into Australian and South American groups here range in nominal size from a small group of genera to
major divisions of the Salticidae as a whole. Given the long interval over which the Australian land bridge
was in place, and our present uncertainty with respect to a timeline for the evolution of salticid groups,
this can be expected. Although modern genera are given as examples of the respective clades, it can be
expected that unknown, now extinct members of these clades actually participated in any actual
migration across Antarctica.
The modern distribution of spartaeines, with only a few known species from Australia and a center of
diversity in the East Indies, provides little support for the division of spartaeines and lapsiines across
Australamerica. One pre-spartaeine species may have migrated out of Greater Australia, however, and
subsequently diversified in the tropical West Indies and Southeast Asia. This division is included for
consideration because of recent evidence from gene sequencing (molecular phylogeny) that spartaeines
and lapsiines are sister groups (Maddison and Needham 2006).
The second division, between the large groups Astioida (Maddison et al. 2008) and Marpissoida
(Maddison and Hedin 2003), reflects the relatively close relationship between these groups that has been
suggested through comparative gene sequencing (Maddison et al. 2008). Both groups are now greatly
diversified, the former in the greater Australian area (including New Zealand) and the latter in both North
and South America. Both groups include a variety of convergent forms that range from the largest of
salticids (e.g., Mopsus and Phidippus), to flattened, cryptic forms (e.g., Holoplatys and Platycryptus), to ant
mimics (e.g., Myrmarachne and Peckhamia). Given the size, diversity, and regional importance of these
groups, the hypothesis that they diversified to current forms after the closing of the Antarctic land bridge
(after the Eocene) appears to be most consistent with the fact that no astioids are found in South America,
and marpissoids (while having a subsequent, smaller dispersal to the Palaearctic) are essentially
American.
The third division (suggested by Hill 2009) of the Euophryinae is based on the fact that this group has two
current centers of diversity, one in the Americas, and one that appears to radiate out of Australia,
including many endemic species in that area. Comparative gene sequencing (Maddison and Hedin 2003,
Maddison et al. 2008) has indicated a close relationship between euophryines in both areas, but the
detailed phylogeny of existing genera will require more study to determine if a single, or if multiple
divisions of the Euophryinae, can be associated with the closing of the Antarctic land bridge. Timing of
diversification in this group is also of great interest. As noted above, Australamerica was around for a
long time.
In addition to species with an affinity to either Asia or Australia, some very unusual endemic salticids can
be found in the vicinity of New Guinea. These include the basal cocalodines (Maddison 2009), as well as
highly unusual forms like Coccorchestes, Diolenius, and Furculatus (Balogh 1981, Żabka, 1994, Szűts 2003,
Gardzińska and Żabka 2006). Many of the endemics, and almost all of the genera shared with Australia,
can be placed in either the Astioda (e.g., Opisthoncus and Sandalodes) or the Euophryinae (e.g., Bathippus
and Euryattus). More than 200 widely distributed species, most from the tropics of Africa or the East
Indies, have been placed in the antlike genus Myrmarachne. Recently (Maddison et al. 2008) included this
large genus with the related Ligonipes in the Astioida. Almost all of the other Astioda are Australasian in
distribution, and this exception by a widely distributed genus that has also made its way to many tropical
islands (including Madagascar) should not affect our hypothesis with respect to an older Australamerican
origin for the Astioida as a group.

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Finally, based on the suggestion (Żabka and Gray 2002) that distinctive Australian endemics of the genus
Grayenulla Żabka 1992 resembled the South American Hisukattus Galiano 1987, I have added this division
to Table 5 for consideration. In both genera the bulb of the male pedipalp is distinctively angulate or
bears unusual protuberances, and and a heavy, curved ebolus emerges laterally (Galiano 1987, Żabka
1992).
Between the astioids, the endemic euophryines, and Grayenulla, this brief review has thus treated most of
the endemic salticids in Australia, and supports the view (Richardson et al. 2006) that a significant
number of endemic species not closely related to the Asian fauna remain to be discovered with further
exploration of the Salticidae of that continent.
It is important to note that, although continental boundaries often appear to determine the distribution of
major groups of salticids (Żabka 1995, Maddison et al. 2008), these spiders are also capable of dispersal
over the ocean (e.g., Żabka and Nentwig 2002, Arnedo and Gillespie 2006). Successful transport of a
single female spider, or a small number of spiders, might result in their colonization and diversification in
a new area, particularly if they were not faced with serious competition. Statistically, the sheer number of
dispersal opportunities across a direct physical connection would appear to drive the larger picture, but
not the complete picture. The introduction of even one species with novel or innovative features, however
improbable, could lead to the radiation of many descendent species over time.
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Drs. G. B. Edwards, Wayne P. Maddison, Jerzy Prószyński, and David B. Richman for their respective
reviews and meaningful feedback.
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