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Genus: Damoetas G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1886 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Damoetas nitidus (L. Koch, 1879)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033069

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019) m (A0001612), j (A0001623) of Scirtetes nitidus L. Koch, 1880 -

Taxonomic References

Scirtetes nitidus L. Koch, 1879a: 1070, pl. 94, f. 2-3 (Dm) Original description

Damoetas nitidus Peckham & Peckham, 1886: 277

Damoetas nitidus Davies & Żabka, 1989: 200, pl. 11 (m, Df)

Damoetas nitidus Prószyński, 2017b: 103, f. 45E, 46P (mf)

References

Davies, V. T. & Żabka, M. (1989). Illustrated keys to the genera of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27(2): 189-266. -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1879a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 24-25]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 1045-1156, pl. 91-100. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1886). Genera of the family Attidae: with a partial synonymy. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 6: 255-342, tab. 1-4. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- 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
2023-05-06	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b