Chinoscopus gracilis (Taczanowski, 1872)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032719

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Distribution: French Guiana, Ecuador, Brazil


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  • Lectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Galiano, 1998a)
  • Paralectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1m - (Galiano, 1998a)
Taxonomic References
Jelskia gracilis Taczanowski, 1872: 70, pl. 3, f. 3 (Dm) Original description
Asamonea gracilis Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889: 245, pl. 12, f. 2 (m; lapsus)
Chinoscopus gracilis Simon, 1901a: 399
Chinoscopus gracilis Caporiacco, 1948a: 697 (Df)
Chinoscopus gracilis Galiano, 1998a: 5, f. 1-4, 11-13, 19, 21, 25-27 (mf)
Chinoscopus gracilis Prószyński, 2017b: 125, f. 54D (mf)
Chinoscopus gracilis Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019: CB34, f. 149-150 (f)
Chinoscopus gracilis Ruiz et al., 2026: 215, f. 26B (f)
References

Caporiacco, L. di (1948a). Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118(3): 607-747. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00402.x -- Show included taxa

Carvalho, T. G. de & Gasnier, T. R. J. (2019). Illustrated inventory of spiders from Amazonas state, Brazil: 94 understory species from a forest fragment in Manaus. Scientia Amazonia 8(2): CB1-CB53. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1998a). Revision of the genus Chinoscopus (Araneae, Salticidae, Lyssomanidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11(1): 1-9. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W., Peckham, E. G. & Wheeler, W. H. (1889). Spiders of the subfamily Lyssomanae. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 7: 221-256, pl. 11-12. -- 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

Ruiz, G. R. S., Marta, K. S., Hagopián, D. & Bustamante, A. A. (2026). Taxonomic revision of Akela Peckham & Peckham, 1896 (Araneae: Salticidae: Freyina), with insights into secondary spermathecae in Salticidae and coupling pocket homology in Freyina. Zoologischer Anzeiger 323: 193-218. doi: 10.1016/j.jcz.2026.05.011 -- 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

Taczanowski, L. (1872). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 9: 64-112, pl. 3-4. [[pdf includes Taczanowski, 1873]] -- 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
2026-06-24 New taxonomic reference entry Ruiz et al., 2026
2026-06-17 Type repository inserted Galiano, 1998a
2020-06-10 New taxonomic reference entry Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019
2017-09-11 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b

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