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Genus: Encolpius Simon, 1900 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Encolpius guaraniticus Galiano, 1968

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033186

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Described:

Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil, Argentinia

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina m (5902) - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
Allotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina f (5903) - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
Paratype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina 5m (5904-5907) - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)

Taxonomic References

Encolpius guaraniticus Galiano, 1968c: 313, f. 48-58 (Dmf) Original description

Encolpius guaraniticus Prószyński, 2017b: 61, f. 27E (mf)

Encolpius guaraniticus Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 165, f. 146, 147A-D, 148A-B (mf)

Encolpius guaraniticus Bedoya-Róqueme, 2022c: 98, f. 1-11 (f)

References

Bedoya-Róqueme, E. (2022c). A new species of jumping spiders of the genus Corythalia C. L. Koch, 1850 (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini) from the central Brazilian Cerrado. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 41: 97-107. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1968c). Revision de los géneros Acragas, Amycus, Encolpius, Hypaeus, Mago y Noegus (Salticidae, Araneae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 2: 267-360. -- 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

Rubio, G. D., Baigorria, J. E. M. & Scioscia, C. L. (2018). Arañas saltícidas de Misiones. Guía para la identificación (tribus basales). Ediciones Fundación Azara, Universidad Maimónides, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 208 pp. -- 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
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018
2023-01-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Bedoya-Róqueme, 2022c
2023-01-11	Species distribution update	Bedoya-Róqueme, 2022c	Old value
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b