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Genus: Chirothecia Taczanowski, 1878 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Chirothecia clavimana (Taczanowski, 1871)

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Described:

Distribution: Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil

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

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Syntype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland Attus clavimanus Taczanowski, 1871 - (Prószyński, 1971e)

Taxonomic References

Attus clavimanus Taczanowski, 1871: 115, pl. 3, f. 6 (Df) Original description

Chirothecia clavimana Taczanowski, 1878a: 363, pl. 4, f. 7 (f)

Chirothecia clavimana Peckham & Peckham, 1895a: 170, pl. 16, f. 2

Chirothecia clavimana Galiano, 1972b: 5, f. 1-5, 13-16, 23-26, 34-36, 43, 48 (f, Dm)

Chirothecia clavimana Prószyński, 2017b: 97, f. 43G (mf)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1972b). Revisión del género Chirothecia Taczanowski, 1878 (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 4: 1-42. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1895a). Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(3): 159-183. -- 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

Taczanowski, L. (1871). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 8: 32-132, pl. 3-4. -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1878a). Les Aranéides du Pérou. Famille des Attides. Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalists de Moscou 53: 278-374. -- 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
2026-03-04	Species distribution update	Courtial, Picard & Pétillon, 2026	Old value
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b