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

Evarcha praeclara Prószyński & Wesołowska, 2003

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038348

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Described:

Distribution: Sudan, Israel, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, Iran

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

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Taxonomic References

Pellenes praecinctus Prószyński, 1984a: 104 (misidentified per Prószyński, 2003: 62)

Evarcha praecinctus Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994: 25, f. 52-58 (mf; misidentified per Prószyński, 2003: 62)

Evarcha praeclara Prószyński & Wesołowska in Prószyński, 2003: 62, f. 205, 207, 211-214, 216, 238-240 (Dmf) Original description

Evarcha praeclara Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007: 205, f. 42-49 (mf)

Evarcha praeclara Prószyński, 2017b: 53, f. 23G, 24I (mf)

Evaneg praeclara Prószyński, 2018b: 149, f. 3B-C, 4L1-L3,M, 10C-D (mf)

References

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. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- 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. & Harten, A. van (1994). The jumping spiders (Salticidae, Araneae) of Yemen. Yemeni-German Plant Protection Project Sana'a, 86 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (2007). Additions to the knowledge of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 23: 189-269. -- 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
2019-01-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018b
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2017-02-02	Species distribution update	Logunov, Marusik & Mozaffarian, 2002	Old value