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Genus: Chalcoscirtus Bertkau, 1880 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Chalcoscirtus karakurt Marusik, 1991

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032669

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Described:

Distribution: Iran, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia m (Ta-4708) - (Mikhailov, 2019b)

Taxonomic References

Chalcoscirtus karakurt Marusik, 1991a: 19, f. 1.1-5 (Dm) Original description

Chalcoscirtus martensi parvulus Marusik, 1991a: 26, f. 4.6-9 (f; misidentified per Wesołowska, 1996: 26)

Chalcoscirtus karakurt Wesołowska, 1996: 26, f. 9A-F (mf)

Chalcoscirtus karakurt Logunov & Marusik, 1999a: 211, f. 38-41 (mf)

References

Logunov, D. V. & Marusik, Y. M. (1999a). A brief review of the genus Chalcoscirtus Bertkau, 1880 in the faunas of Central Asia and the Caucasus (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 7(3, 1998): 205-226. -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. (1991a). Spider genus Chalcoscirtus (Aranei, Salticidae) from the USSR. Communication 2. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 70(1): 19-31. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1996). New data on the jumping spiders of Turkmenistan (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(1/2): 17-53. -- 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
2025-03-06	Species distribution update	Fomichev, 2016b	Old value
2017-02-02	Species distribution update	Logunov & Marusik, 1999a	Old value