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Genus: Tubalaxia Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Tubalaxia minuta (Prószyński, 1992)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033301

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Described:

Distribution: India

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM), Budapest, Hungary f (851) - (Prószyński, 1992b)

Taxonomic References

Euophrys minutus Prószyński, 1992b: 172, f. 30-32 (Df) Original description

Lechia minuta Prószyński, 2017b: 75, f. 32L (f, T from Euophrys, but Lechia not revalidated, therefore assigned to Laufeia, of which Lechia is a synonym)

Lechia minuta Prószyński, 2019: 117 (T from Laufeia, N.B.: only provisionally, belongs neither to Laufeia nor to Euophrys)

Tubalaxia minuta Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024: 702, S14 (T from Lechia)

References

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

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2019). Character assassination: a personal witness account with a taxonomic note on the genus Laufeia s. lat. (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 117-127. doi: 10.37828/em.2019.22.9 -- Show included taxa

Satkunanathan, A. & Benjamin, S. P. (2024). Multilocus genetic and morphological phylogenetic analysis: unveiling a new genus and species in the tribe Nannenini of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Zoologica Scripta 53(5): 688-711 & Suppl. doi: 10.1111/zsc.12660 -- 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.

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2024-08-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024
2024-08-07	Species transferred to new genus	Satkunanathan & Benjamin, 2024	Species transferred from Lechia to Tubalaxia
2019-09-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2019
2019-09-17	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2019	Species transferred from Laufeia to Lechia
2017-09-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-13	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2017b	Species transferred from Euophrys to Laufeia