Żabka, Prof. Dr. M. M.

Żabka, Prof. Dr. M. M. Katedra Zoologii,
Instytut Biologii Akademii Podlaskiej
ul. B. Prusa 12, 08-110 Siedlce
Poland

tel.+48 25 643 12 10, +48 25 643 12 09
e-mail: marekzabka@ap.siedlce.pl

Born in 1955. In 1978 graduated with MSc in Wyzsza Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna, Siedlce, Poland for the thesis on Salticidae of Vistula river slopes in Plock area. In 1983 graduated with PhD at the University of Poznan, Poland, for the monograph on Salticidae of Viet-Nam (supervised by J. Proszynski). In in 1991 awarded with DSc degree for taxonomic and zoogeographical research on Salticidae of Australia and Pacific islands. Employed in the Department of Zoology of Akademia Podlaska, Siedlce, Poland. Research interests: taxonomy and biogeography of Salticidae of the Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions. Publications: about 50 revisions of genera and regional studies (Viet-Nam, Australia, New Guinea).
Current projects: Salticidae of Australia and New Zealand.

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ŻABKA, M. (1980)

   Salticidae from the Nepal Himalayas. Chalcoscirtus BERTKAU 1880 and Euophrys C. L. KOCH 1834 (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenbergiana biologica 60: 359-369

ŻABKA, M. (1980)

   Salticidae from the Nepal Himalayas. Sitticus niveosignatus (SIMON 1880) (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenbergiana biologica 60: 241-247

PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. & ŻABKA, M. (1980)

   Remarks on oligocene amber spiders of the family Salticidae. Act. Palaeont. Pol. 25(2): 213-223

ŻABKA, M. (1981)

   Salticidae from Kashmir and Ladakh (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenbergiana biologica 61: 407-413

ŻABKA, M. (1981)

   Salticidae from the Nepal Himalayas. New species of Yaginumaella PRÓSZYŃSKI 1976 (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenbergiana biologica 60: 371-380

ŻABKA, M. (1981)

   New species of Yaginumaella PRÓSZYŃSKI 1976 and Helicius PRÓSZYŃSKI 1976 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Bhutan and Burma. Ent. Brasiliensia 6: 5-41

PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. & ŻABKA, M. (1983)

   Genus Tomocyrba (Aranei, Salticidae)-hypothetic survivor of the amber fauna. Systematic study with description of four new species. Acta zool. cracov.  26: 563-578

ŻABKA, M. (1985)

   Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam. Annales Zoologici 39(11): 197-485

ŻABKA, M. (1987)

   Salticidae (Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, I. Genera Clynotis and Tara. Annales Zoologici 40(10): 435-450

ŻABKA, M. (1987)

   Salticidae (Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, II. Genera Lycidas and Maratus. Annales Zoologici 40(11): 451-483

ŻABKA, M. (1988)

   Salticidae (Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, III. Annales Zoologici 41(14): 421-478

ŻABKA, M. (1988)

   Fossil Eocene Salticidae (Araneae) from the collection of the museum of Earth in Warsaw. Annales Zoologici 41(13): 415-420

ŻABKA, M. (1989)

   Salticidae from the Nepal and Bhutan Himalayas. Genera Pancorius SIMON 1902, Plexippus C. L. KOCH 1846, and Pseudamycus SIMON 1885 (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenbergiana biologica 70: 161-178

DAVIES, V. T. & ŻABKA, M. (1989)

   Illustrated keys to the genera of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27(2): 189-266

ŻABKA, M. (1990)

   Salticidae (Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, IV. Genus Ocrisiona SIMON, 1901. Records of the Australian Museum 42: 27-43

ŻABKA, M. (1990)

   Remarks on Salticidae of Australia. Acta Zoologica Fennica 190

ŻABKA, M. (1991)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pazific regions, VII. Mopsolodes, Abracadabrella and Pseudosynagelides - New genera from Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30(3): 621-644

ŻABKA, M. (1991)

   Studium taksonomiczno-zoogeograficne nad Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) Australii. Wyższa Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna W Siedlcach Rozprawa Naukowa 32: 1-110

ŻABKA, M. (1991)

   Salticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, V. Genus Holoplatys SIMON, 1885. Records of the Australian Museum 43: 171-240

ŻABKA, M. (1992)

   Orisima SIMON (Araneae: Salticidae), a remarkable spider from Africa and Malaya. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Socity 9(1): 10-12

ŻABKA, M. (1992)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, VII. Paraplatoides and Grayenulla - New genera from Australia and New Caledonia. Records of the Australian Museum 44: 165-183

ŻABKA, M. (1992)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, VIII. A new genus from Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 15(4): 673-684

ŻABKA, M. (1993)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions. IX. Genera Afraflacilla BERLAND & MILLOT 1941 and Evarcha SIMON 1902. Invertebr. Taxon. 7: 279-295

ŻABKA, M. (1993)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of New Guinea - a zoogeographic account. Boll. Acc. Gioenia Sci. Nat. 26(345): 389-394

ŻABKA, M. (1994)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, X. Genus Simaetha THORELL. Records of the Western Australian Museum 16(4): 499-534

ŻABKA, M. (1995)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, XI. A new genus of Astieae from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 52: 159-164

ŻABKA, M. (1995)

   Remarks on evolution of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Proc. 15th Europ. Coll. Arachnol.: 195-201

ŻABKA, M., KOVAC, D. (1996)

   Paracyrba wanlessi - a new genus and species of Spartaeinae from Peninsular Malaysia, with notes on its biology. Senckenbergiana biologica 76: 153-161

ŻABKA, M. (1996)

   Bulolia, a new genus of Salticidae (Arachnida: Aranae) from Papua New Guinea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie: 701-707

ŻABKA, M. (1997)

   Salticidae: Pajaki skaczace (Arachnida: Araneae). Fauna Poloniae 19: 1-188

ŻABKA, M. & KUPRYJANOWICZ, J. (1997)

   Redescription and notes on biology and distribution of Talavera westringi (SIMON, 1868) comb. nov.. Genus 8(1): 169-173

ŻABKA, M. & PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1998)

   Middle European Euophrys C. L. KOCH, 1834 Salticidae (Araneae: Salticidae) - one, two or three genera? . Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology: 115-120, Edinburgh 1997

PATOLETA, B. & ŻABKA, M. (1999)

   Salticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Islands off Australia. The Journal of Arachnology 27: 229-235

ŻABKA, M. (1999)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, XII. Marengo PECKHAM & PECKHAM 1892 from Papua New Guinea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43: 893-905

ŻABKA, M. (2000)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, XIII: the genus Sandalodes KEYSERLING. Invertebr. Taxon.  14: 695-704

ŻABKA, M. (2001)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, XIV. The genus Adoxotoma SIMON. Records of the Western Australian Museum 20: 323-332

ŻABKA, M. (2002)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, XV. New species of Astieae from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 54: 257-268

ŻABKA, M. & GRAY, M. R. (2002)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, XVI. New species of Grayenulla and Afraflacilla. Records of the Australian Museum 54: 269-274

ŻABKA, M. & NENTWIG, W. (2002)

   The Krakatau Islands (Indonesia) as a model-area for zoologeographical study, a Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) perspective. Annales Zoologici 52(3): 465-474

ŻABKA, M., POLLARD, S. D. & ANSTEY, M. (2002)

   Zoogeography of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of New Zealand - first approach. Annales Zoologici 52(3): 459-464

ŻABKA, M. & POLLARD, S. D. (2002)

   Hinewaia, a new genus of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from New Zealand. Annales Zoologici 52(4): 597-600

ŻABKA, M. (2003)

   Salticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, XVII. Paraphilaeus, a new genus from Australia. Annales Zoologici 53(4): 489-507

ŻABKA, M. & POLLARD, S. D. (2003)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of New Zealand: genus Hypoblemum PECKHAM and PECKHAM, 1886 . Records of the Canterbury Museum 16: 64-72

ŻABKA, M. & POLLARD, S. D. (2003)

   A check-list of Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 16: 73-82

ŻABKA, M. (2004)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of New Zealand. Genus Adoxotoma SIMON, 1909. Annales Zoologici 54(3): 591-594

ŻABKA, M. & GRAY, M. R. (2004)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, XVIII. Huntiglennia - a new genus from Australia. Annales Zoologici 54: 587-590

PHAM, S. D., COM, V. Q. & ŻABKA, M. (2004)

   A preliminary checklist of the jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) of Vietnam. Journal of Biology 26: 48-56

GARDZIŃSKA, J. & ŻABKA, M. (2005)

   A revision of the spider genus Chalcolecta SIMON, 1884 (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici 55(3): 437-448

RICHARDSON, B. J., ŻABKA, M., GRAY, M. R. & MILLEDGE, G. (2006)

   Distributional patterns of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Journal of Biogeography 33: 707-719

GARDZIŃSKA, J. & ŻABKA, M. (2006)

   A revision of the spider genus Diolenius THORELL, 1870 (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici 56(2): 387-433

ŻABKA, M. (2006)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions. XIX. Genus Pellenes SIMON, 1876 in Australia. Annales Zoologici 56: 567-573

RICHARDSON, B. J. & ŻABKA, M. (2007)

   A revision of the Australian jumping spider genus Prostheclina KEYSERLING, 1892 (Araneae: Salticidae). Records of the Australian Museum 59: 79-96

ŻABKA, M. (2007)

   Jumping spider (Araneae, Salticidae) taxonomy and biogeography in Australia: current state and future prospects. Australasian Arachnology 76: 4-11

ŻABKA, M. (2009)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions: Astilodes and Urogelides, new genera from Australia. Insect Systematics & Evolution 40: 349-359

GARDZIŃSKA, J. & ŻABKA, M. (2010)

   A new genus and five new species of Astieae (Araneae: Salticidae) from Australia, with remarks on distribution. ZOOTAXA 2526: 37-53

ŻABKA, M. (2012)

   Phlegra SIMON, 1876, Phintella STRAND 1906 and Yamangalea MADDISON, 2009 (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae)- new species and new generic records for Australia. ZOOTAXA 3176: 61-68

ŻABKA, M. & WALDOCK, J. (2012)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions. Genus Cosmophasis SIMON, 1901. Annales Zoologici 62(1): 115-198

GARDZIŃSKA, J. & ŻABKA, M. (2013)

   Redescription of the genus Opisthoncus L. KOCH, 1880 (Araneae: Salticidae). ZOOTAXA 3717: 401-447

ŻABKA, M. (2014)

   Maddisonia — a new jumping spider genus from Australia (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae). Records of the Australian Museum 66(4): 217-223

ŻABKA, M. & PATOLETA, B. M. (2014)

   New species of Helpis SIMON, 1901 from Australia (Araneae: Salticidae), with a new definition of the genus. ZOOTAXA 3873(5): 571-589

ŻABKA, M. & PATOLETA, B. M. (2015)

   New species of Tauala WANLESS, 1988 from Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Astioida: Astiae), with a redefinition of the genus. ZOOTAXA 4000(5): 501-517

PATOLETA, B. & ŻABKA, M. (2015)

   Proszynellus - a new jumping spider genus from Australia (Araneae: Salticidae). ZOOTAXA 3926(2): 257-267

ŻABKA, M. & PATOLETA, B. M. (2016)

   New species of Jacksonoides WANLESS, 1988 from Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Astioida), with a re-definition of the genus. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 43(1): 10-41

CAO, Q., LI, S. & ŻABKA, M. (2016)

   The jumping spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 630: 43-104

PATOLETA, B., ŻABKA, M. (2017)

   A new species of Trite SIMON, 1885 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Zealand, with remarks on Trite relationships and radiation. PeerJ 5(e3463): 1-19

ŻABKA, M. & GARDZIŃSKA, J. (2017)

   Salticidae of Thailand. Part 1, genera Plexippus C. L. KOCH, 1846 and Burmattus PRÓSZYŃSKI, 1992. Annales Zoologici 67(2): 229-242

PATOLETA, B., GARDZIŃSKA, J. & ŻABKA, M. (2017)

   New species of Rogmocrypta Simon, 1900 from New Caledonia, with remarks on relationships and distribution (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 697: 73-86

PATOLETA, B. & ŻABKA, M. (2019)

   Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of New Caledonia: genus Corambis SIMON, 1901. European Journal of Taxonomy 578: 1-18

PATOLETA, B., GARDZIŃSKA, J. & ŻABKA, M. (2020)

   Salticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Thailand: new species and records of Epeus PECKHAM & PECKHAM, 1886 and Ptocasius SIMON, 1885. PeerJ 8(e9352): 1-23

PATOLETA, B., ŻABKA, M. (2020)

   New record of Gelotia THORELL, 1890 and a new species of Parahelpis GARDZÍNSKA & ŻABKA, 2010 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Australia. ZOOTAXA 4899(1): 280-286

ŻABKA, M. & PATOLETA, B. M. (2020)

   New species of Langona SIMON, 1901 and Neaetha SIMON, 1884 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Thailand. ZOOTAXA 4899(1): 374-383

TRĘBICKI, Ł., PATOLETA, B. M., DABERT, M. & ŻABKA, M. (2021)

   Redescription of type species of the genus Cytaea KEYSERLING, 1882 (Araneae: Salticidae) – an integrative approach. The European Zoological Journa 88(1): 933-947

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