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Genus: Chalcolecta Simon, 1884 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Chalcolecta prensitans (Thorell, 1881)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032646

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Described:

Distribution: New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)

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

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Taxonomic References

Marptusa prensitans Thorell, 1881: 432 (Dm) Original description

Marptusa rapax Thorell, 1881: 434 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032647]

Chalcolecta prensitans Simon, 1901a: 479

Chalcolecta rapax Simon, 1901a: 479

Chalcolecta prensitans Gardzińska & Żabka, 2005: 442, f. 1-2, 20-59 (mf, S of Chalcolecta rapax)

Chalcolecta prensitans Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 70, f. 404-406, 834-835 (f)

Chalcolecta prensitans Prószyński, 2017b: 112, f. 48D, 49K (mf)

References

Gardzińska, J. & Żabka, M. (2005). A revision of the spider genus Chalcolecta Simon, 1884 (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 55(3): 437-448. -- 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

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1881). Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 17: 1-720. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. X. & Maddison, W. P. (2015). Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny. Zootaxa 3938(1): 1-147. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1 -- 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
2015-04-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang & Maddison, 2015