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Genus: Anasaitis Bryant, 1950 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Anasaitis elegantissimus (Simon, 1888)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032887

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Described:

Distribution: Hispaniola

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

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Dynamius elegantissimus Simon, 1888b: 205 (Df) Original description

Corythalia elegantissima Simon, 1901a: 655

Corythalia elegantissima Bryant, 1943b: 471, pl. 3, f. 27, 30, pl. 4, f. 44 (f, Dm)

Corythalia elegantissima Galiano, 1963a: 334, pl. XVI, f. 5-6 (f)

Anasaitis elegantissima Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 15 (T from Corythalia)

References

Bryant, E. B. (1943b). The salticid spiders of Hispaniola. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 92: 445-529. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1963a). Las especies americanas de arañas de la familia Salticidae descriptas por Eugène Simon. Redescripciones basadas en los ejemplares típicos. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23(68): 273-470. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1888b). Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXIX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de l'Amérique centrale et des Antilles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 8: 203-216. -- 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

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
2015-04-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang & Maddison, 2015
2015-04-28	Species transferred to new genus	Zhang & Maddison, 2015		Species transferred from Corythalia to Anasaitis