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Genus: Dendryphantes C. L. Koch, 1837 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Dendryphantes hewitti Lessert, 1925

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033096

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique

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

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Syntype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden 5m 24f - (Lessert, 1925a)

Taxonomic References

Dendryphantes hewitti Lessert, 1925a: 472, f. 58-61 (Dmf) Original description

Dendryphantes hewitti Wesołowska, 2012a: 202, f. 1-11 (mf)

Dendryphantes hewitti Wesołowska & Dawidowicz, 2014: 69, f. 7-14 (mf)

Dendryphantes hewitti Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 15, f. 9A-B (mf)

Dendryphantes hewitti Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 15, f. 18C-D (f)

References

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

Lessert, R. de (1925a). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 5. Salticidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31: 429-528. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2012a). Redescriptions of some jumping spiders described by R. Lessert from Central Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 23(2): 201-221. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Dawidowicz, A. (2014). Dendryphantine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Kenya with descriptions of a few new species. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 64(1): 65-78. doi: 10.3161/000345414X680582 -- Show included taxa

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- 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
2025-10-01	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025	Old value
2024-12-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-29	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2014-07-31	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Dawidowicz, 2014