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Genus: Habrocestum Simon, 1876 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Habrocestum bovaei (Lucas, 1846)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033556

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Described:

Distribution: Morocco, Algeria, Spain

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (presumably in Paris) -

Taxonomic References

Salticus bovaei Lucas, 1846: 179, pl. 9, f. 7 (Df; correct original spelling, latinized patronym for Bové = Bovaeus) Original description

Habrocestum bovoei Simon, 1909b: 40

Habrocestum bovoei Dalmas, 1920a: 66 (Dm)

Habrocestum bovoei Denis, 1937b: 1057, pl. 5, f. 13 (mf)

Habrocestum bovei Kolosváry, 1938e: 74, f. p (f)

Habrocestum bovaei Prószyński, 1987: 29-30 (m)

Habrocestum bovei Lecigne, 2012: 163, f. 2, 8-9 (m)

Habrocestum bovaei Martín & Adame, 2024: 154, f. 8A-B (m)

References

Dalmas, R. de (1920a). Liste d'araignées de Boudron en Asie Mineure suive d'une étude des espèces méditerranéennes du genre Habrocestum. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 49: 57-69. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1937b). On a collection of spiders from Algeria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 106(4): 1027-1060, pl. 1-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1936.tb06301.x -- Show included taxa

Kolosváry, G. (1938e). Sulla fauna aracnologica della Jugoslavia. Rassegna Faunistica 5: 61-81. -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S. (2012). Inventaire aranéologique (Arachnida, Araneae) dans la ville d'Estepona (Malaga, Espagne). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 21: 161-167. -- Show included taxa

Lucas, H. (1846). Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. In: Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840, 1841, 1842 publiée par ordre du Gouvernement et avec le concours d'une commission académique. Paris, Sciences physiques, Zoologie 1, 89-271, pl. 1-17. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.112444 -- Show included taxa

Martín, D. F. & Adame, F. R. (2024). Nuevas adiciones a la fauna aracnológica de Andalucía. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 45: 150-166. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1987). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej Siedlcach, 172 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1909b). Etude sur les arachnides recueillis au Maroc par M. Martinez de la Escalera en 1907. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (6) 1: 5-43. -- 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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2024-12-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Martín & Adame, 2024