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

Cyrba nigrimana Simon, 1900

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Described:

Distribution: Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (20124) - (Wanless, 1984b)
Paralectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 3f (20124) - (Wanless, 1984b)
Paralectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1f - (Wanless, 1984b)

Taxonomic References

Cyrba nigrimanus Simon, 1900b: 389 (Df) Original description

Cyrba nigrimana Caporiacco, 1947c: 230

Cyrba nigrimana Wanless, 1984b: 465, f. 12A-G (f)

Cyrba nigrimana Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 27, f. 26-28 (f)

Cyrba nigrimana Azarkina & Logunov, 2010: 167, f. 14-23 (Dm, f)

Cyrba nigrimana Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 14, f. 7A-E (mf)

Cyrba nigrimana Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 50, p. 46: f. 1-4, p. 50: f. 1-8 (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

Caporiacco, L. di (1947c). Arachnida Africae Orientalis, a dominibus Kittenberger, Kovács et Bornemisza lecta, in Museo Nationali Hungarico servata. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 40: 97-257. -- 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

Haddad, C. R., Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). The jumping spiders of Mozambique (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 5560(1): 1-92. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1900b). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44: 381-407. -- 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. & 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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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2025-04-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a
2024-12-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-29	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value