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Genus: Nycerella Galiano, 1982 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Nycerella vestita (Taczanowski, 1878)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033353

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Described:

Distribution: Peru, Galapagos

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

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Syntype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland Euophrys vestitus Taczanowski, 1878 - (Prószyński, 1971e)

Taxonomic References

Euophrys vestitus Taczanowski, 1878a: 293 (Dmf) Original description

Nycerella vestita Edwards & Baert, 2018: 23, f. 14A-J, 15A-B (mf, T from Euophrys)

Nycerella vestita Baert et al., 2023: 25, f. 86A-B (m)

References

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [[includes figs of 5 undescribed species]] -- Show included taxa

Edwards, G. B. & Baert, L. (2018). New species, combinations, and records of jumping spiders in the Galápagos Islands (Araneae: Salticidae). Belgian Journal of Entomology 67: 1-27. -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1878a). Les Aranéides du Pérou. Famille des Attides. Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalists de Moscou 53: 278-374. -- 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
2024-12-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Baert et al., 2023
2018-05-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Edwards & Baert, 2018
2018-05-29	Species transferred to new genus	Edwards & Baert, 2018		Species transferred from Euophrys to Nycerella
2018-05-29	Species distribution update	Edwards & Baert, 2018	Old value