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Genus: Aphirape C. L. Koch, 1850 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Aphirape riojana (Mello-Leitão, 1941)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032308

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Described:

Distribution: Paraguay, Argentina

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina m (14995) - (Galiano, 1981a)

Taxonomic References

Theratoscirtus riojanus Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 189, f. 82-83, pl. 12, f. 55 (Dm) Original description

Aphirape riojana Galiano, 1981e: 107, f. 4-7, 30, 41 (m, Df, T from Thiratoscirtus)

Aphirape riojana Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021: 932, f. 10A-D (f)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1981e). Revision del genero Aphirape C. L. Koch, 1851 (Araneae, Salticidae). Comunicaciones del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" (Ent.) 1: 93-111. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941d). Las arañas de Córdoba, La Rioja, Catamarca, Tucumán, Salta y Jujuy colectadas por los Profesores Birabén. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S., Zool.) 2: 99-198. -- Show included taxa

Pett, B. L., Rubio, G. D. & Stolar, C. E. (2021). A first baseline for the salticid (Araneae: Salticidae) fauna of Paraguay, with thirty-two new records and description of a new species from Paraguay and Argentina. Arachnology 18(8): 922-935. doi: 10.13156/arac.2021.18.8.922 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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	Comment
2021-07-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021
2021-07-05	Species distribution update	Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021	Old value