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Genus: Gastromicans Mello-Leitão, 1917 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Gastromicans albopilosa (Simon, 1903)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033509

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Paraguay

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil 1m 4f 2j (1108, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Gastromicans squamulata - (Galiano, 1980b)
Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (N.B.: no number of paralectotypes mentioned) - (Galiano, 1963a)

Taxonomic References

Beata albopilosa Simon, 1903a: 831, f. 988 (Dm) Original description

Gastromicans squamulata Mello-Leitão, 1917c: 147, f. 16, 22 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056098]

Beata albopilosa Galiano, 1963a: 306, pl. XII, f. 1-2 (m)

Beata albopilosa Bauab-Vianna, 1979b: 195, f. 8-12 (Df)

Beata albopilosa Galiano, 1980b: 38 (S of Gastromicans squamulata)

Gastromicans albopilosa Maddison, 1996: 234 (T from Beata)

Gastromicans albopilosa Prószyński, 2017b: 97, f. 43J (m)

References

Bauab-Vianna, M. J. (1979b). Descrição de nova espécie de Sassacus Peckham & Peckham, 1895 e a fêmea de Beata albopilosa Simon, 1903 (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 23: 193-196. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1963a). Las especies americanas de arañas de la familia Salticidae descriptas por Eugène Simon. Redescripciones basadas en los ejemplares típicos. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23(68): 273-470. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1980b). Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Primera parte. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 39: 31-40. -- Show included taxa

Maddison, W. P. (1996). Pelegrina Franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 154: 215-368. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1917c). Aranhas novas ou pouco conhecidas de Thomisidas e Salticidas brasileiras. Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria, Rio de Janeiro 1: 117-153, 2 pl. -- 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

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
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b