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Genus: Epocilla Thorell, 1887 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Epocilla aurantiaca (Simon, 1885)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033204

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Described:

Distribution: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (16293) - (Prószyński, 1984a)

Taxonomic References

Opistoncus aurantiacus Simon, 1885h: 30 (Df) Original description

Dischiropus alticinctus Karsch, 1892: 300, pl. 12, f. 26 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055070]

Epocilla aurantiaca Simon, 1901a: 550, 555 (S of Dischiropus alticinctus, sub albocinctus, lapsus)

Epocilla aurantiaca Prószyński, 1984a: 38, 155 (mf)

Epocilla aurantiaca Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016: 19, f. 16A-E, 25E, 27L (f)

References

Karsch, F. (1892). Arachniden von Ceylon und von Minikoy gesammelt von den Herren Doctoren P. und F. Sarasin. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 36(2, 1891): 267-310, pl. 10-12. [[published mid March 1892]] -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa

Roy, T. K., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2016). A treatise on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of tea ecosystem of Dooars, West Bengal, India. World Scientific News 53(1): 1-66. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1885h). Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale. I. Arachnides recueillis à Wagra-Karoor près Gundacul, district de Bellary par M. M. Chaper. II. Arachnides recueillis à Ramnad, district de Madura par M. l'abbé Fabre. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 10(1): 1-39. [[pl. 10 see Simon, 1885e]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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
2020-09-07	Species distribution update		Old value
2016-09-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Roy, Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2016