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Genus: Cylistella Simon, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Cylistella cuprea (Simon, 1864)

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Described:

Distribution: French Guiana, Peru, Brazil, Argentina?

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

Rhanis cuprea Simon, 1864: 309 (D) Original description

Coccorchestes cupreus Peckham & Peckham, 1895a: 169, pl. 15, f. 10 (Dmf)

Cylistella cuprea Simon, 1901a: 487, f. 572-573

Cylistella cuprea Galiano, 1963a: 340, pl. XVI, f. 18-20 (m)

Cylistella cf. cuprea Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 147, f. 125, 126A-C, 127A-C (mf)

References

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

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

Rubio, G. D., Baigorria, J. E. M. & Scioscia, C. L. (2018). Arañas saltícidas de Misiones. Guía para la identificación (tribus basales). Ediciones Fundación Azara, Universidad Maimónides, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 208 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1864). Histoire naturelle des Araignées (Aranéides). Roret, Paris, 540 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.47654 [[there are two published versions of pp. 65-68, version 1 from BHL, version 2 from Munich library]] -- 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

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
2026-02-23	Species distribution update	Courtial, Picard & Pétillon, 2026	Old value
2025-08-16	Species distribution update	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018	Old value
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018