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

Evarcha vitosa Próchniewicz, 1989

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033436

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Described:

Distribution: Central, East Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Evarcha vitosa Próchniewicz, 1989, (29569) -

Taxonomic References

Evarcha vitosa Próchniewicz, 1989: 210, f. 52-55 (Df) Original description

Evacin vitosa Prószyński, 2018b: 142, f. 7T (f)

References

Próchniewicz, M. (1989). Über die Typen von Arten der Salticidae (Araneae) aus der äthiopischen Region im Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 65(2): 207-228. doi: 10.1002/mmnz.19890650204 -- 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
2019-01-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018b