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

Cyrba simoni Wijesinghe, 1993

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033031

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Described:

Distribution: Nigeria, Cameroon, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Angola

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

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Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f - (Wanless, 1984b)

Taxonomic References

Cyrba bimaculata Simon, 1886g: 392 (Df; primary junior homonym of C. bimaculata Keyserling, 1883, see Salpesia bicolor) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055860]

Cyrba bimaculata Wanless, 1984b: 461, f. 1, 10A-L, 17E-F, 22E (f, Dm)

Cyrba simoni Wijesinghe, 1993: 136 (replacement name) Original description

Cyrba simoni Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 20, f. 20-24 (mf)

References

Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. -- 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. & Russell-Smith, A. (2000). Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 13(1): 11-127. doi: 10.1080/03946975.2000.10531126 -- Show included taxa

Wijesinghe, D. P. (1993). Cyrba simoni, replacement name for Cyrba bimaculata Simon, 1886 (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9(4): 136. -- 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]

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