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

Carrhotus tristis Thorell, 1895

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032633

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Described:

Distribution: India, Myanmar, Taiwan

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m - (Ono et al., 2026)

Taxonomic References

Carrhotus tristis Thorell, 1895b: 379 (Dm) Original description

Carrhotus tristis Prószyński, 1984a: 17 (m)

Carrhotus tristis Prószyński, 1992b: 168, f. 8-11 (m)

Carrhotus tristis Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020: 65 (species inquirenda, probably not a Carrhotus)

Carrhotus tristis Chen, Lin & Ueng, 2021: 296, f. 8A-B, 9A-D (m)

References

Caleb, J. T. D., Bera, C. & Acharya, S. (2020). New species and synonymies in the genus Carrhotus Thorell, 1891 from India (Aranei: Salticidae: Salticini). Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 51-66. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.29.1.04 -- Show included taxa

Chen, K.-M., Lin, T.-Y. & Ueng, Y.-T. (2021). Three new species and six newly recorded species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Taiwan. Natural Resources 12: 290-320. doi: 10.4236/nr.2021.129021 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1992b). Salticidae (Araneae) of India in the collection of the Hungarian National Natural History Museum in Budapest. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 44: 165-277. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1895b). Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum. London, 406 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.17492 -- 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
2026-03-29	Type repository inserted	Ono et al., 2026
2021-10-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Chen, Lin & Ueng, 2021
2021-10-05	Species distribution update	Chen, Lin & Ueng, 2021	Old value
2020-03-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020