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

Chalcoscirtus martensi Żabka, 1980

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032673

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Described:

Distribution: Central Asia, India, Nepal, China

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 m (30286) - (Żabka, 1980b)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 2m 2j (30287) - (Żabka, 1980b)

Taxonomic References

Chalcoscirtus martensi Żabka, 1980b: 360, f. 1-9 (Dm) Original description

Chalcoscirtus martensi Żabka, 1981a: 407, f. 1-3 (m)

Chalcoscirtus martensi Hu & Wu, 1989: 359, f. 282.1-3 (m)

Chalcoscirtus martensi Peng, 2020: 60, f. 23a-b (m)

References

Hu, J. L. & Wu, W. G. (1989). Spiders from agricultural regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Shandong University Publishing House Jinan, 435 pp. -- Show included taxa

Peng, X. J. (2020). Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae. Science Press, Beijing, 612 pp. -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (1980b). Salticidae from the Nepal Himalayas. Chalcoscirtus Bertkau 1880 and Euophrys C. L. Koch 1834 (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 60: 359-369. -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (1981a). Salticidae from Kashmir and Ladakh (Arachnida, Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 61: 407-413. -- 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
2020-07-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Peng, 2020