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Genus: Gelotia Thorell, 1890 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Gelotia syringopalpis Wanless, 1984

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033525

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Described:

Distribution: China, Malaysia (Peninsula, Borneo)

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (1981.12.31.9) - (Wanless, 1984a)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 4f (1981.12.31.10-13) - (Wanless, 1984a)

Taxonomic References

Gelotia syringopalpis Wanless, 1984a: 178, f. 21A-I (Dmf) Original description

Gelotia syringopalpis Wanless, 1984b: 446, f. 18D-F

Gelotia syringopalpis Xie & Peng, 1995a: 289, f. 1-5 (mf)

Gelotia syringopalpis Song & Li, 1997: 433, f. 42A-D (m)

Gelotia syringopalpis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 512, f. 297C-D, M-N, 326A (mf)

Gelotia syringopalpis Yin et al., 2012: 1372, f. 745a-e (mf)

Gelotia syringopalpis Peng, 2020: 150, f. 97a-e (mf)

References

Peng, X. J. (2020). Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae. Science Press, Beijing, 612 pp. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X. & Li, S. Q. (1997). Spiders of Wuling Mountains area. In: Song, D. X. (ed.) Invertebrates of Wuling Mountains Area, Southwestern China. Science Press, Beijing, pp. 400-448. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1984a). A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) with descriptions of six new genera. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 46: 135-205. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1984b). A revision of the spider genus Cyrba (Araneae: Salticidae) with the description of a new presumptive pheromone dispersing organ. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 47(7): 445-481. doi: 10.5962/p.21842 -- Show included taxa

Xie, L. P. & Peng, X. J. (1995a). Four species of Salticidae from the southern China (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 20(3): 289-294. -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press Changsha, 1590 pp. -- 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
2020-07-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Peng, 2020