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

Evarcha nigricans (Dalmas, 1920)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033570

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Described:

Distribution: Algeria, Tunisia

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (14743) - (Prószyński, 1987)

Taxonomic References

Habrocestum nigricans Dalmas, 1920a: 67 (Dm) Original description

Habrocestum nigricans Prószyński, 1987: 38 (m, apparently misclassified)

Evarcha nigricans Prószyński, 2003: 64, f. 236-237 (m, T from Habrocestum)

Evaneg nigricans Prószyński, 2018b: 149, f. 10J (m)

Evarcha nigricans Zamani et al., 2026b: 21, f. 16A-E, 17A-D (m, Df)

References

Dalmas, R. de (1920a). Liste d'araignées de Boudron en Asie Mineure suive d'une étude des espèces méditerranéennes du genre Habrocestum. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 49: 57-69. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1987). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej, Siedlce, 172 pp. -- 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

Zamani, A., Belhadi, A., Dekkoumi, B., Iflefel, S. A., Sidatt, Z. E. A., Elmareme, H. M., Shaibi, T., Meddour, S. & Alioua, Y. (2026b). New species and records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Maghreb. Zootaxa 5873(1): 1-31. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5873.1.1 ZooBank: EA1FD2F6-013E-4D0B-8FC3-F20C92F610C8 -- 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
2026-08-20	First description of female	Zamani et al., 2026b
2026-08-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani et al., 2026b
2026-08-20	Species distribution update	Zamani et al., 2026b	Old value
2019-01-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018b