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Genus: Ghelna Maddison, 1996 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Ghelna castanea (Hentz, 1846)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033528

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Described:

Distribution: USA

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

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Taxonomic References

Attus castaneus Hentz, 1846: 353, pl. 21, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Dendryphantes castaneus Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 472, pl. 36, f. 3 (f, Dm)

Dendryphantes castaneus Emerton, 1911: 407, pl. 6, f. 5 (f)

Metaphidippus castaneus Muma, 1944: 11

Dendryphantes castaneus Roewer, 1955c: 1208

Metaphidippus castaneus Kaston, 1973: 109, f. 5-7 (mf, T from Dendryphantes)

Ghelna castanea Maddison, 1996: 239, f. 48 (m, T from Metaphidippus)

Ghelna castanea Prószyński, 2017b: 94, f. 42G (m)

References

Emerton, J. H. (1911). New spiders from New England. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 16: 383-407. -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1846). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 5(3): 352-370, pl. 21-22. -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1973). Four new species of Metaphidippus, with notes on related jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the eastern and central United States. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 92(1): 106-122. doi: 10.2307/3225175 -- 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

Muma, M. H. (1944). A report on Maryland spiders. American Museum Novitates 1257: 1-14. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1909). Revision of the Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 16(1, 5): 355-646, pl. 29-51. -- 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

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 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
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b