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

Evarcha bakorensis Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038234

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria

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

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Taxonomic References

Evarcha bakorensis Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002: 288, f. 4A-D (Dm) Original description

Evarcha bakorensis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 568, f. 52-56, 222 (m, Df)

Evawes bakorensis Prószyński, 2018b: 153, f. 2U, 13O-P (mf)

References

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

Rollard, C. & Wesołowska, W. (2002). Jumping spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains in Guinea. Zoosystema 24: 283-307. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2011). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from southern Nigeria. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 61(3): 553-619. doi: 10.3161/000345411X603409 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2025-06-29	Species distribution update	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025	Old value
2022-10-16	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022	Old value
2019-01-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018b