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Genus: Balmaceda G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Balmaceda picta G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032416

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Described:

Distribution: Guatemala to Colombia

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

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Taxonomic References

Balmaceda picta Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 101, pl. 10, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Balmaceda picta F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 297, pl. 28, f. 18-19 (mf)

Balmaceda picta Chickering, 1946: 61, f. 42-44 (f)

Balmaceda picta Edwards, 2006: 211, f. 115-122 (mf)

Balmaceda picta Galvis et al., 2018: 3, f. 6-7 (f)

References

Chickering, A. M. (1946). The Salticidae of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 97: 1-474. -- Show included taxa

Edwards, G. B. (2006). A review of described Metacyrba, the status of Parkella, and notes on Platycryptus and Balmaceda, with a comparison of the genera (Araneae: Salticidae: Marpissinae). Insecta Mundi 19: 193-226. -- Show included taxa

Galvis, W., Pulgarín, O., Correa, E., Castrillón, I. & Acevedo, N. (2018). First record of the jumping spider genus Balmaceda Peckham & Peckham (Salticidae: Salticinae: Dendryphantini) from Colombia. Peckhamia 163.1: 1-5. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1894a). Spiders of the Marptusa group. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(2): 83-156. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- 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
2018-04-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Galvis et al., 2018
2018-04-22	Species distribution update	Galvis et al., 2018	Old value