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Genus: Cyrba Simon, 1876 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Cyrba lineata Wanless, 1984

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033028

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa, Eswatini

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium f (152164) - (Wanless, 1984b)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1f (1983.6.24.2) - (Wanless, 1984b)
Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa m of Cyrba armata - (Wesołowska, 2006c)

Taxonomic References

Cyrba lineata Wanless, 1984b: 465, f. 13A-H (Df) Original description

Cyrba armata Wesołowska, 2006c: 618, f. 1-5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040967]

Cyrba lineata Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 26, f. 24-25, 239 (mf, S of Cyrba armata)

Cyrba lineata Azarkina & Logunov, 2010: 164, f. 1-13 (mf)

Cyrba lineata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 49, f. 1-7 (mf)

References

Azarkina, G. N. & Logunov, D. V. (2010). New data on the jumping spiders of the subfamily Spartaeinae (Araneae: Salticidae) from Africa. African Invertebrates 51(1): 163-182. doi: 10.5733/afin.051.0103 -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025a). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 1 (A-Den). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 63 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15222559 -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1984b). A revision of the spider genus Cyrba (Araneae: Salticidae) with the description of a new presumptive pheromone dispersing organ. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 47(7): 445-481. doi: 10.5962/p.21842 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2006c). A new species of Cyrba from South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Sparteinae [sic]). Genus 17: 614-620. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2009). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50(1): 13-103. doi: 10.5733/afin.050.0102 -- 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
2025-04-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a
2025-04-21	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a	Old value