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Genus: Eustiromastix Simon, 1902 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Eustiromastix moraballi Mello-Leitão, 1940

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033376

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Described:

Distribution: Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (2494) - (Galiano, 1980b)

Taxonomic References

Eustiromastix moraballi Mello-Leitão, 1940c: 185, f. 19-20 (Dm) Original description

Eustiromastix moraballi Galiano, 1979a: 179, f. 16-17 (m)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1979a). Revisión del género Eustiromastix Simon, 1902 (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 7: 169-186. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1940c). Spiders of the Guiana forest collected by O. W. Richards. Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de Sao Paulo 2: 175-197. -- 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
2023-07-19	Species distribution update	Courtial et al., 2023	Old value