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

Epeus bicuspidatus (Song, Gu & Chen, 1988)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033193

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Described:

Distribution: China, Vietnam

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zhejiang Museum of Natural History (ZMNH), Hangzhou, China m - (Song, Gu & Chen, 1988)
Paratype: Zhejiang Museum of Natural History (ZMNH), Hangzhou, China 6m - (Song, Gu & Chen, 1988)

Taxonomic References

Plexippodes bicuspidatus Song, Gu & Chen, 1988: 71, f. 6-8 (Dm) Original description

Epeus bicuspidatus Peng et al., 1993: 48, f. 121-124 (m, T from Plexippoides)

Epeus bicuspidatus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 508, f. 291N-O (m)

Epeus bicuspidatus Peng & Li, 2002a: 386, f. 1A-D (m)

Epeus bicuspidatus Yin et al., 2012: 1352, f. 732a-d (m)

Epeus bicuspidatus Meng, Zhang & Shi, 2015: 147, f. 1-2, 5-6, 9-14 (m, Df)

Epeus bicuspidatus Peng, 2020: 92, f. 48a-d (m)

Epeus bicuspidatus Vu, Duong & Pham, 2025: 3, f. 1A-F, 2A-E (mf)

Epeus bicuspidatus Hill, 2025a: 20, f. 12.1-2 (possibly senior S of Epeus pengi)

References

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

Meng, X. W., Zhang, Z. S. & Shi, A. M. (2015). Description of two unknown females of Epeus Peckham & Peckham from China (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 3955(1): 147-150. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3955.1.11 -- Show included taxa

Peng, X. J., Xie, L. P., Xiao, X. Q. & Yin, C. M. (1993). Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae). Hunan Normal University Press, 270 pp. -- Show included taxa

Peng, X. J. & Li, S. Q. (2002a). A review of the genus Epeus Peckham & Peckham (Araneae: Salticidae) from China. Oriental Insects 36: 385-392. doi: 10.1080/00305316.2002.10417336 -- Show included taxa

Peng, X. J. (2020). Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae. Science Press, Beijing, 612 pp. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Gu, M. B. & Chen, Z. F. (1988). Three new species of the family Salticidae from Hainan, China. Bulletin of Hangzhou Normal College (nat. Sci.) 1988(6): 70-74. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Vu, D. T., Duong, V. T. & Pham, D. S. (2025). First records of Epeus bicuspidatus and description of a new species of Epeus (Araneae, Salticidae) from Vietnam. Biodiversity Data Journal 13(e172899): 1-10. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e172899 -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press Changsha, 1590 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2025-12-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Vu, Duong & Pham, 2025
2025-12-01	Species distribution update	Vu, Duong & Pham, 2025	Old value
2025-05-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Hill, 2025a
2020-07-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Peng, 2020
2015-05-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Meng, Zhang & Shi, 2015
2015-05-20	First description of female	Meng, Zhang & Shi, 2015	Old value