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Genus: Enoplomischus Giltay, 1931 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Enoplomischus ghesquierei Giltay, 1931

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033190

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Described:

Distribution: Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (5050) - (Wesołowska & Szeremeta, 2001)
Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium f (212732) of Enoplomischus spinosus - (Wesołowska, 2005)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m of Enoplomischus chattoni - (Wesołowska & Szeremeta, 2001)

Taxonomic References

Enoplomischus ghesquierei Giltay, 1931: 168, f. 1-2 (Dm) Original description

Enoplomischus chattoni Berland & Millot, 1941: 343, f. 47 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033189]

Enoplomischus ghesquierei Wesołowska & Szeremeta, 2001: 219, f. 4-10 (m, S of Enoplomischus chattoni)

Enoplomischus spinosus Wesołowska, 2005: 309, f. 1-8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040805]

Enoplomischus ghesquierei Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 22 (S of Enoplomischus spinosus)

References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. -- Show included taxa

Giltay, L. (1931). Notes arachnologiques africaines. IV. Description d'une espèce nouvelle de Leptorchestinae (Salticidae unidentati). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 21(2): 167-170. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Szeremeta, M. (2001). A revision of the ant-like salticid genera Enoplomischus Giltay, 1931, Kima Peckham & Peckham, 1902 and Leptorchestes Thorell, 1870 (Araneae: Salticidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 32(2): 217-240. doi: 10.1163/187631201X00173 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2005). A new species of Enoplomischus from Kenya (Araneae: Salticidae: Leptorchestinae). Genus 16: 307-311. -- 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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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
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2024-09-06	Species synonymy	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024		Enoplomischus spinosus synonymized with Enoplomischus ghesquierei