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

Evarcha nepos (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033416

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Described:

Distribution: Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel

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

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Syntype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK 1m 1f (j1821: 1, 62) - (Prószyński, 1984a)

Taxonomic References

Salticus nepos O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 333 (Dmf) Original description

Hasarius nepos Simon, 1876a: 90

Hasarius nepos Roewer, 1955c: 1524 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)

Evarcha nepos Prószyński, 1984a: 101 (mf, T from Hasarius, removed from nomen dubium)

Evarcha nepos Prószyński, 2003: 58, f. 201, 217-219, 222-223 (mf)

Evaneg nepos Prószyński, 2018b: 149, f. 10H (mf)

Evarcha nepos Alioua & Bosmans, 2024: 320, f. 10a-e (m)

References

Alioua, Y. & Bosmans, R. (2024). Spiders of arid lands: the Ghardaïa region (northern Sahara) with seven new records for Algeria. Zootaxa 5497(3): 301-336. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.3.1 -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x -- 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. (2003). Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180. -- 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

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1876a). Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième. Roret, Paris, 364 pp., pl. 9-13. -- 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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2024-11-04	Species distribution update	Schäfer, 2024	Old value
2024-08-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Alioua & Bosmans, 2024
2024-08-26	Species distribution update	Alioua & Bosmans, 2024	Old value
2019-01-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018b
2015-07-13	Species distribution update	Logunov, 2015a	Old value