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

Epeus glorius Żabka, 1985

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033196

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Described:

Distribution: China, Vietnam, Malaysia

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland m - (Żabka, 1985)

Taxonomic References

Epeus glorius Żabka, 1985: 216, f. 121-124 (Dm) Original description

Epeus glorius Xie & Peng, 1993: 20, f. 5-8 (m)

Epeus glorius Peng et al., 1993: 49, f. 125-128 (m)

Epeus glorius Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 508, f. 291P-Q (m)

Epeus glorius Peng & Li, 2002a: 387, f. 2A-E (m)

Epeus glorius Meng, Zhang & Shi, 2015: 148, f. 3-4, 7-8, 15-20 (m, Df)

Epeus glorius Peng, 2020: 92, f. 49a-e (m)

References

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

Xie, L. P. & Peng, X. J. (1993). One new species and two newly recorded species of the family Salticidae from China (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 2: 19-22. -- 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
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