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

Evarcha chappuisi Lessert, 1925

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033388

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Described:

Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m 3f (ARTO-0027923) - (Lessert, 1925a)
Syntype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden 1m 1f - (Prószyński, 1984a)

Taxonomic References

Evarcha chappuisi Lessert, 1925a: 501, f. 81-84 (Dmf) Original description

Evarcha chappuisi Prószyński, 1984a: 48 (mf)

Evarcha chappuisi Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016: 441, f. 15-19, 94 (mf)

Evarcha [?] chappuisi Prószyński, 2018b: 155, f. 15F (mf)

References

Dawidowicz, A. & Wesołowska, W. (2016). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Kenya collected by Åke Holm. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 66(3): 437-466. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2016.66.3.010 -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1925a). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 5. Salticidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31: 429-528. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- 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

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
2018-04-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018b
2016-10-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016