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Genus: Euophrys C. L. Koch, 1834 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Euophrys purcelli G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033324

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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

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Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 2m - (Wesołowska, 2012b)

Taxonomic References

Euophrys purcellii Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 201, pl. 22, f. 5 (Dm) Original description

Euophrys purcelli Prószyński, 1976: 153, f. 176 (m)

Euophrys purcelli Wesołowska, 2012b: 325, f. 1-5, 56-57 (m, Df)

Euophrys purcelli Prószyński, Lissner & Schäfer, 2018: 38, f. 10G, 13G (mf)

Euophrys purcelli Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b: 17, f. 1-5 (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025b). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 2 (E-Ha). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 65 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15266589 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1976). Studium systematyczno-zoogeograflczne nad rodziną Salticidae (Aranei) Regionów Palearktycznego i Nearktycznego. Wyższa Szkola Pedagogiczna Siedlcach 6: 1-260. [[pdf is made from a reprint from 1979]] -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J., Lissner, J. & Schäfer, M. (2018). Taxonomic survey of the genera Euophrys, Pseudeuophrys and Talavera, with description of Euochin gen. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) and with proposals of a new research protocol. Ecologica Montenegrina 18: 26-74. doi: 10.37828/em.2018.18.4 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2012b). Redescriptions of some salticid species (Araneae: Salticidae) from South Africa and Zimbabwe described by G. and E. Peckham. African Entomology 20(2): 325-342. doi: 10.4001/003.020.0223 -- 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
2025-04-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b
2018-07-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, Lissner & Schäfer, 2018