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Genus: Epeus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1886 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Epeus alboguttatus (Thorell, 1887)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033191

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Described:

Distribution: Nepal, India, Myanmar

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo Civico Storia Naturale G. Doria, Genova (MCSNG), Italy f - (Żabka, 1985)
Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India f (5391/18-B.K, epigyne lost) of Epeus khandalaensis - (Sudhin et al., 2024)
Holotype: Arachnology Division, Sacred Heart College (ADSH), Cochin, Kerala, India m (86164A) of Epeus triangulopalpis - (Malamel et al., 2019b)
Paratype: Arachnology Division, Sacred Heart College (ADSH), Cochin, Kerala, India 1m (8716616A) of Epeus triangulopalpis - (Malamel et al., 2019b)
Paratype: Centre for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology (CATE), Department of Zoology, Christ College, Irinjalakuda, Kerala, India 1m 1f (8704A) of Epeus triangulopalpis - (Malamel et al., 2019b)
Holotype: Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM), Budapest, Hungary f (929) of Epeus indicus - (Prószyński, 1992b)

Taxonomic References

Viciria alboguttata Thorell, 1887: 397 (Dj; f per Żabka, 1985: 214) Original description

Phidippus khandalaensis Tikader, 1977c: 98, f. 6-8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035469]

Epeus alboguttatus Żabka, 1985: 214, f. 119 (f, T from Viciria; mf f. 109-116, 120 see Epeus phamtri)

Viciria alboguttata Chen & Zhang, 1991: 316, f. 336.5 (f; f f. 336.1-3 see Epeus phamtri)

Epeus indicus Prószyński, 1992b: 171, f. 22-23, 26, 29 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033198]

Phidippus khandalaensis Edwards, 2004: 6 (misplaced in this genus)

Epeus indicus Jastrzebski, 2010a: 116, f. 1-2, 5-7 (f)

Epeus indicus Dhali, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2017: 26, f. 15-19, pl. 16 (f; misidentified per Hill, 2025: 11, "almost certainly not an Epeus")

Epeus triangulopalpis Malamel et al., 2019b: 169, f. 1-5, 7-23 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051246]

Epeus khandalaensis Sudhin et al., 2024: 454, f. 6A-C (T from Phidippus)

Epeus alboguttatus Hill, 2025a: 5, f. 2.1-7, 3.1-12, 5, 6.1-4 (f, S of Epeus indicus, E. khandalaensis and E. triangulopalpis)

References

Chen, Z. F. & Zhang, Z. H. (1991). Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House, Hangzhou, 356 pp. -- Show included taxa

Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2017). Litter and ground dwelling spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars, West Bengal. World Scientific News 63: 1-242. -- Show included taxa

Edwards, G. B. (2004). Revision of the jumping spiders of the genus Phidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Occasional Papers of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods 11: 1-156. -- Show included taxa

Hill, D. E. (2025a). Identification of jumping spiders placed in the genus Epeus (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippini: Plexippina). Peckhamia 330.1: 1-50. -- Show included taxa

Jastrzębski, P. (2010a). Salticidae from the Himalayas. The genus Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 21: 115-120. -- Show included taxa

Malamel, J. J., Nafin, K. S., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Sebastian, P. A. (2019b). Two new species of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the genera Epeus Peckham et Peckham, 1886 and Piranthus Thorell, 1895 from India. Arthropoda Selecta 28(2): 267-276. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.28.2.10 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1992b). Salticidae (Araneae) of India in the collection of the Hungarian National Natural History Museum in Budapest. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 44: 165-277. -- Show included taxa

Sudhin, P. P., Jwala, R., Sen, S. & Hegde, V. D. (2024). Taxonomic notes on the genus Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1886 (Araneae, Salticidae) from India. Zoosystematics and Evolution 100(2): 447-455. doi: 10.3897/zse.100.118686 -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1887). Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui ragni birmani. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 25: 5-417. -- Show included taxa

Tikader, B. K. (1977c). Description of two new species of jumping-spiders of the genus Phidippus (family: Salticidae) from India. Entomon 2(1): 97-99. -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (1985). Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 39: 197-485. -- 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
2025-05-22	Species synonymy	Hill, 2025a		Epeus triangulopalpis synonymized with Epeus alboguttatus
2025-05-22	Species synonymy	Hill, 2025a		Epeus indicus synonymized with Epeus alboguttatus
2025-05-22	Species synonymy	Hill, 2025a		Epeus khandalaensis synonymized with Epeus alboguttatus
2025-05-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Hill, 2025a
2025-05-22	Species distribution update	Hill, 2025a	Old value
2025-05-14	Species distribution update	Tam & Hill, 2025	Old value
2025-05-14	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Epeus phamtri Tam & Hill, 2025
2020-07-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Peng, 2020