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Genus: Habronattus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Habronattus banksi (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033604

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico to Panama, Jamaica

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Pellenes cambridgei Kraus, 1955, 1 f (8618-141) -

Taxonomic References

Habronattus perfidus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 245, pl. 21, f. 10 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061310]

Pellenes banksi Peckham & Peckham, 1901b: 12, pl. 3, f. 7 (Df) Original description

Pellenes cambridgei Kraus, 1955b: 68, f. 200 (Df; preoccupied in Habronattus by Bryant, 1948, see Habronattus cambridgei) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061300]

Habronattus banksi Griswold, 1987a: 163, f. 122, 165, 212 (mf, T from Pellenes, S of Habronattus perfidus and Pellenes cambridgei Kraus)

Habronattus banksi Prószyński, 2017b: 46, f. 20L, 20U (f)

References

Griswold, C. E. (1987a). A revision of the jumping spider genus Habronattus F. O. P.-Cambridge (Araneae; Salticidae), with phenetic and cladistic analyses. The University of California Publications in Entomology 107: 1-344. -- Show included taxa

Kraus, O. (1955b). Spinnen aus El Salvador (Arachnoidea, Araneae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 493: 1-112. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1901b). On spiders of the family Attidae found in Jamaica. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 71(1): 6-16, pl. 2-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08162.x -- 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

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

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