World Spider Catalog

Genus: Carrhotus Thorell, 1891 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Carrhotus erus Jastrzebski, 1999

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032619

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Described:

Distribution: India, Nepal

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Carrhotus erus Jastrzebski, 1999, 1 m (56848-141) -
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Carrhotus erus Jastrzebski, 1999, 1 m (56849-141); 1 m (56850-141); 1 m (56851-141); 1 m (56852-141); 1 m (56853-141) -

Taxonomic References

Carrhotus erus Jastrzebski, 1999: 4, f. 12-15 (Dm) Original description

Carrhotus erus Logunov, 2021d: 353, f. 3-4 (m)

References

Jastrzębski, P. (1999). Salticidae from the Himalaya: The genus Carrhotus Thorell 1891 (Araneae, Salticidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 79: 1-9. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (2021d). New species and records of the jumping spiders from India and Nepal (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 30(3): 351-361. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.30.3.08 -- 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
2021-09-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov, 2021d
2021-09-23	Species distribution update	Logunov, 2021d	Old value