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Genus: Tarkas Edwards, 2015 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Tarkas maculatipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033481

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico, Guatemala

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

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Taxonomic References

Cyrene maculatipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 234, pl. 19, f. 12 (Dm) Original description

Cyrene mediocava F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 236, pl. 20, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035407]

Freya maculatipes Simon, 1903a: 730

Phiale mediocava Petrunkevitch, 1911: 692

Freya maculatipes Galiano, 2001: 34, f. 14-16 (m)

Tarkas maculatipes Edwards, 2015: 63, f. 28A-E, G-O (Tm from Freya, Sf)

References

Edwards, G. B. (2015). Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4036(1): 1-87. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (2001). Revisión de las especies de Freya del grupo decorata (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 29(1): 21-41. doi: 10.1636/0161-8202(2001)029[0021:RNDLED]2.0.CO;2 -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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
2015-11-13	Species distribution update	Edwards, 2015	Old value
2015-11-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Edwards, 2015
2015-11-13	Species synonymy	Edwards, 2015		Tarkas mediocavus synonymized with Tarkas maculatipes
2015-11-13	Species transferred to new genus	Edwards, 2015		Species transferred from Freya to Tarkas