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

Evarcha acuta Wesołowska, 2006

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040813

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, South Africa, Seychelles

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Museum of Namibia, Windhoek (NMNW) [= State Museum of Namibia/SMN], Namibia m (44506) - (Wesołowska, 2006b)

Taxonomic References

Evarcha acuta Wesołowska, 2006b: 230, f. 23-25 (Dm) Original description

Evarcha acuta Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018: 884, f. 16, 45-48 (m)

Evarcha [?] acuta Prószyński, 2018b: 155, f. 15A (m)

Evacin acuta Prószyński, 2018b: 142, f. 7M (mf)

Evarcha acuta Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b: 22, f. 1-2 (m)

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

Prószyński, J. (2018b). Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 16: 130-179. doi: 10.37828/em.2018.16.12 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2006b). Jumping spiders from the Brandberg massif in Namibia (Araneae: Salticidae). African Entomology 14: 225-256. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2018). Further additions to the jumping spider fauna of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 68(4): 879-908. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.011 -- 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
2025-04-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b
2019-01-19	Species distribution update	Prószyński, 2018b	Old value
2019-01-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018b
2018-12-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018
2018-12-11	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018	Old value
2018-04-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018b