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

Dendryphantes purcelli G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033115

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Described:

Distribution: St. Helena, South Africa, Lesotho

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

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Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 2m 2f - (Peckham & Peckham, 1903)

Taxonomic References

Dendryphantes purcellii Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 206, pl. 24, f. 11 (Dmf) Original description

Dendryphantes purcelli Clark & Benoit, 1977: 101, f. 44a-d (mf)

Dendryphantes purcelli Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011: 60, f. 9-10, 24-27 (mf)

Dendryphantes purcelli Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 57, f. 1-8 (mf)

References

Clark, D. J. & Benoit, P. L. G. (1977). Fam. Salticidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 87-103. -- 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. & Wesołowska, W. (2011). New species and new records of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from central South Africa. African Invertebrates 52(1): 51-134. doi: 10.5733/afin.052.0105 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- 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
2025-04-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a
2014-09-29	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014	Old value