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

Amycus flavicomis Simon, 1900

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032284

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Described:

Distribution: French Guiana, Brazil, Argentina

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Agelista amazonica Mello-Leitão, 1930, (01104); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Amycus carvalhoi Mello-Leitão, 1947, (02218); 3 m 1 f 1 j (destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m - (Galiano, 1963a)
Holotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina m of Amycus argentinus - (Galiano, 1980b)

Taxonomic References

Amycus flavicomis Simon, 1900d: 36 (Dm) Original description

Agelista amazonica Mello-Leitão, 1930b: 69, f. 38-39 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055232]

Amycus argentinus Mello-Leitão, 1945b: 275, f. 63 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055233]

Amycus gertschi Soares & Camargo, 1948b: 437, f. 29 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055235]

Amycus carvalhoi Mello-Leitão, 1949: 22, pl. 1, f. 1-2, pl. 6, f. 16 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055234]

Amycus flavicomis Galiano, 1963a: 292, pl. VII, f. 8-10 (m)

Amycus flavicomis Galiano, 1963d: 29 (S of Agelista amazonica)

Amycus flavicomis Galiano, 1968c: 275, f. 8 (f, S of Amycus argentinus, A. carvalhoi and A. gertschi)

Amycus flavicomis Prószyński, 2017b: 61, f. 27A (mf)

Amycus flavicomis Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 163, f. 38C, 143, 144A-C, 145 (mf)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1963a). Las especies americanas de arañas de la familia Salticidae descriptas por Eugène Simon. Redescripciones basadas en los ejemplares típicos. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23(68): 273-470. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1963d). Revisión del género Agelista Simon, 1900, con nota sobre Titanattus notabilis (Mello-Leitão) comb. n. (Araneae, Salticidae). Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 24: 29-34. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1968c). Revision de los géneros Acragas, Amycus, Encolpius, Hypaeus, Mago y Noegus (Salticidae, Araneae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 2: 267-360. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1930b). Aranhas do Cuminá. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 32: 51-75. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1945b). Arañas de Misiones, Corrientes y Entre Ríos. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S.) 4(Zoología 29): 213-302. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1949). Aranhas da Foz do Koluene. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (N.S., Zool.) 92: 1-19, 14 pls. -- 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

Rubio, G. D., Baigorria, J. E. M. & Scioscia, C. L. (2018). Arañas saltícidas de Misiones. Guía para la identificación (tribus basales). Ediciones Fundación Azara, Universidad Maimónides, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 208 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1900d). Etudes arachnologiques. 30e Mémoire. XLVII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Attidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 69: 27-61. -- Show included taxa

Soares, B. A. M. & Camargo, H. F. de A. (1948b). Alguns novos salticidas do Brasil (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 8: 421-443. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2026-03-04	Type repository inserted	Galiano, 1963a
2026-03-04	Species distribution update	Courtial, Picard & Pétillon, 2026	Old value
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018
2017-09-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b