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

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

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033629

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Described:

Distribution: USA, Mexico

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

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Taxonomic References

Pellenes elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1901c: 201, 212, pl. 1, f. 3 (Dm) Original description

Pellenes elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 552, pl. 44, f. 9, pl. 46, f. 4 (m)

Habronattus elegans Prószyński, 1976: 155, f. 262 (m, T from Pellenes)

Habronattus elegans Griswold, 1987a: 189, f. 58, 73, 231 (m, Df)

Habronattus elegans Prószyński, 2017b: 46, f. 20H (m)

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

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1901c). Pellenes and some other genera of the family Attidae. Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society (N.S.) 1(4): 195-233, pl. 1-2. -- 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. (1976). Studium systematyczno-zoogeograflczne nad rodziną Salticidae (Aranei) Regionów Palearktycznego i Nearktycznego. Wyższa Szkola Pedagogiczna Siedlcach 6: 1-260. [[pdf is made from a reprint from 1979]] -- 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