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Genus: Erica G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Erica eugenia G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033220

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Described:

Distribution: Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil m (01005, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Apatita tristis - (Galiano, 1980b)
Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil 2m 1f (02217, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Sarinda scutata - (Galiano, 1965b)
Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1m 1f (could not be examined) - (Bedoya-Róqueme, 2022a)

Taxonomic References

Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 55, pl. 4, f. 9 (Dmf) Original description

Erica eugenia F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 175, pl. 12, f. 10 (mf)

Apatita tristis Mello-Leitão, 1933a: 83, pl. 3, f. 13 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054407]

Sarinda scutata Mello-Leitão, 1947c: 30, pl. 1, f. 7, pl. 2, f. 8, pl. 5, f. 17 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054408]

Erica eugenia Galiano, 1965b: 310 (S of Sarinda scutata)

Erica eugenia Galiano, 1980b: 35 (S of Apatita tristis)

Erica eugenia Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 149, f. 128A-D, 129-130 (mf)

Erica eugenia Bedoya-Róqueme, 2022a: 2, f. 1-24 (mf)

References

Bedoya-Róqueme, E. (2022a). On the jumping spider Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham (Araneae: Salticidae: Simonellini) from Brazil. Peckhamia 268.1: 1-8. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1965b). Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes IV. Revisión del género Sarinda Peckham, 1892. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 1: 267-312. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1980b). Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Primera parte. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 39: 31-40. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1933a). Ensaio sobre as myrmarachninas do Brasil. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 9: 39-102. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1947c). Aranhas de Carmo do Rio Claro (Minas Gerais) coligidas pelo naturalista José C. M. Carvalho. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (N.S., Zool.) 80: 1-34. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1892). Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(1): 1-84, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 89-192, pl. 6-15. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Rubio, G. D., Baigorria, J. E. M. & Scioscia, C. L. (2018). Arañas saltícidas de Misiones. Guía para la identificación (tribus basales). Ediciones Fundación Azara, Universidad Maimónides, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 208 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
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018
2022-07-11	Species distribution update	Perger & Rubio, 2022	Old value
2022-06-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Bedoya-Róqueme, 2022a
2022-06-17	Species distribution update	Bedoya-Róqueme, 2022a	Old value