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Genus: Cembalea Wesołowska, 1993 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Cembalea heteropogon (Simon, 1910)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032638

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, South Africa

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

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Lectotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany m (18504) - (Logunov, 1996d)

Taxonomic References

Neaetha heteropogon Simon, 1910b: 217 (Dm; f see Cembalea plumosa) Original description

Naetha heteropogon Próchniewicz, 1989: 217, f. 28-32 (m)

Cembalea heteropogon Logunov, 1996d: 529, f. 29-33 (m, T from Neaetha)

Cembalea heteropogon Wesołowska, 2006b: 228, f. 17-22 (m)

Cembalea heteropogon Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 41, f. 1-8 (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025a). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 1 (A-Den). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 63 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15222559 -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (1996d). Taxonomic remarks on the genera Neaetha Simon, 1884 and Cembalea Wesolowska, 1993 (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 7(3): 515-532. -- Show included taxa

Próchniewicz, M. (1989). Über die Typen von Arten der Salticidae (Araneae) aus der äthiopischen Region im Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 65(2): 207-228. doi: 10.1002/mmnz.19890650204 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1910b). Arachnoidea: Araneae (II.). In: Schultze, L. (ed.) Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16: 175-218. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2006b). Jumping spiders from the Brandberg massif in Namibia (Araneae: Salticidae). African Entomology 14: 225-256. -- 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
2025-04-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a
2025-04-21	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a	Old value
2019-05-21	Species distribution update	Haddad & Marusik, 2019	Old value