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

Dendryphantes legibilis (Nicolet, 1849)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041397

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Described:

Distribution: Chile

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

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Taxonomic References

Attus legibilis Nicolet, 1849: 366 (Df; considered a nomen dubium by Roewer, 1955c: 1425) Original description

Dendryphantes legibilis Ruiz & Brescovit, 2008a: 536, f. 1-2 (Tf from Attus=Salticus)

Dendryphantes legibilis Richardson, 2010: 16, f. 30-31 (f)

References

Nicolet, H. (1849). Aracnidos. In: Gay, C. (ed.) Historia física y política de Chile. Zoología 3, 319-543, pl. 1-5. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.16172 -- Show included taxa

Richardson, B. J. (2010). A review of the jumping spider fauna (Araneae: Salticidae) of Chile. Zootaxa 2418: 1-49. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2418.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Ruiz, G. R. S. & Brescovit, A. D. (2008a). On some Chilean jumping spider type specimens described by Nicolet (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 35(3): 535-537. doi: 10.1636/H06-31.1 -- 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]

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