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Genus: Asaracus C. L. Koch, 1846 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Asaracus megacephalus C. L. Koch, 1846

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032328

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

External Resources*: Salticidae Database Prószyński (2016) | GBIF

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Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Asaracus megacephalus C. L. Koch, 1846, (1678) -

Taxonomic References

Asaracus megacephalus C. L. Koch, 1846: 188, f. 1236 (Dm) Original description

Asaracus megalocephalus Prószyński, 1984a: 164 (m)

Asaracus megacephalus Edwards, 2015: 23, f. 4A-J (m, Df)

Asaracus megacephalus Prószyński, 2017b: 61, f. 27C, 28C (m)

References

Edwards, G. B. (2015). Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4036(1): 1-87. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. 1-234, pl. 433-468 (f. 1078-1271); Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88, pl. 467-480 (f. 1272-1342). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2015-11-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Edwards, 2015
2015-11-13	First description of female	Edwards, 2015	Old value