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Genus: Harmochirus Simon, 1886 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Harmochirus luculentus Simon, 1886

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033701

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Described:

Distribution: Sub-Saharan Africa, Zanzibar, Yemen

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f of Velloa elegans - (Logunov, 2001a)
Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m of Harmochirus albibarbis - (Logunov, 2001a)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (7553) - (Clark, 1974)

Taxonomic References

Harmochirus luculentus Simon, 1886g: 387 (Dm) Original description

Harmochirus albibarbis Peckham & Peckham, 1895a: 171, pl. 16, f. 3 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033692]

Velloa elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 218, pl. 24, f. 10 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033696]

Velloa bianoriformis Lessert, 1936: 291, f. 87-90 (mf; misidentified per Logunov, 2001a: 254)

Valloa elongata Roewer, 1955c: 1236 (lapsus)

Harmochirus luculentus Prószyński, 1987: 59, 108 (m)

Harmochirus albibarbis Wesołowska, 1994: 198, f. 1-3 (m)

Harmochirus bianoriformis Wesołowska, 1994: 199, f. 4-13 (mf; misidentified per Logunov, 2001a: 254)

Harmochirus duboscqi Wesołowska, 1994: 201, f. 16-20 (mf; misidentified per Logunov, 2001a: 254, 281)

Harmochirus elegans Wesołowska, 1994: 203, f. 14-15 (f, T from Chirothecia)

Harmochirus luculentus Wesołowska, 1994: 205, f. 21-24 (m)

Harmochirus luculentus Logunov, 2001a: 254, f. 206-246 (mf, S of Harmochirus albibarbis and Velloa elegans)

Harmochirus luculentus Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007: 214, f. 68-75 (mf)

Harmochirus luculentus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b: 58, p. 57: f. 1, p. 58: f. 1-6 (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025b). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 2 (E-Ha). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 65 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15266589 -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1936). Araignées de l'Afrique orientale portugaise, recueillies par MM. P. Lesne et B.-B. Cott. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 43: 207-306. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.144393 -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (2001a). A redefinition of the genera Bianor Peckham & Peckham, 1885 and Harmochirus Simon, 1885, with the establishment of a new genus Sibianor gen. n. (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 9(4, 2000): 221-286. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1895a). Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(3): 159-183. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- 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

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

Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1994). Notes on the African species of the genus Harmochirus Simon, 1885 (Aranei: Salticidae). Genus 5: 197-207. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (2007). Additions to the knowledge of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 23: 189-269. -- 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
2025-04-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b