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Genus: Bryantella Chickering, 1946 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Bryantella smaragda (Crane, 1945)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032588

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Described:

Distribution: Panama to Argentina

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

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Taxonomic References

Parnaeus smaragdus Crane, 1945: 40, f. 5A-G (Dm, lapsus for Parnaenus) Original description

Parnaenus convexus Chickering, 1946: 335, f. 292-297 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062281]

Dendryphantes convexus Roewer, 1955c: 1192

Dendryphantes smaragdus Roewer, 1955c: 1200

Parnaenus convexus Prószyński, 1971e: 446 (T from Dendryphantes)

Bryantella smaragdus Scioscia, 1988: 188, f. 7-8, 10-12, 19-23 (mf, T from Dendryphantes, S of Parnaenus convexus)

Bryantella smaragdus Scioscia, 1995: 37, f. 1-12 (mf)

Bryantella smaragda Prószyński, 2017b: 95, f. 43E (m)

References

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

Crane, J. (1945). Spiders of the family Salticidae from British Guiana and Venezuela. Zoologica (New York) 30: 33-42. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1971e). Catalogue of Salticidae (Aranei) specimens kept in major collections of the world. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 28: 367-519. -- 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

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

Scioscia, C. L. (1988). Determinacion de Bryantella speciosa y B. smaragdus, nueva combinacion, mediante la aplicacion de tecnicas numericas (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 16: 177-191. -- Show included taxa

Scioscia, C. L. (1995). Variaciones individuales en ejemplares de Bryantella smaragdus obtenidos por crianza en el laboratorio (Salticidae, Araneae). Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales, Sección C 50: 37-40. -- 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
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-11	Species updated	Prószyński, 2017b	Old value	Species epithet corrected
2017-09-11	Species updated	Prószyński, 2017b	Old value