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

Hispo georgius (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035871

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Described:

Distribution: DR Congo, Kenya, Angola, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Madagascar

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

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Taxonomic References

Leptorchestes georgius Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 52, pl. 4, f. 6 (Df) Original description

Quekettia georgii Peckham & Peckham, 1902: 333 (T from Leptorchestes)

Pseudomarengo inermis Caporiacco, 1947c: 228, pl. 2, f. 63 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033912]

Pseudomarengo rufescens Caporiacco, 1947c: 229, pl. 2, f. 64 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056442]

Pseudomarengo inermis Roewer, 1965: 33, f. 27a-e (mf)

Hispo inermis Wanless, 1981a: 186, f. 5A-J (mf)

Quekettia georgius Prószyński, 1984a: 124 (f)

Pseudomarengo inermis Prószyński, 1987: 82-83, 165 (mf, S of Pseudomarengo rufescens)

Hispo inermis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 186, f. 55-66 (mf, S of Hispo inermis with Hispo georgii, erroneously used younger name)

Hispo georgii Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016: 446, f. 99-100 (m habitus)

Hispo georgius Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 45, p. 44: 1-2, p. 45: 1-9 (mf)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1947c). Arachnida Africae Orientalis, a dominibus Kittenberger, Kovács et Bornemisza lecta, in Museo Nationali Hungarico servata. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 40: 97-257. -- Show included taxa

Dawidowicz, A. & Wesołowska, W. (2016). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Kenya collected by Åke Holm. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 66(3): 437-466. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2016.66.3.010 -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Walt, V. van der, Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025c). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 3 (He-Iran). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 74 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17103454 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1892). Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(1): 1-84, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1902). Some new genera and species of Attidae from South Africa. Psyche 9(312): 330-335. doi: 10.1155/1902/13502 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- 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. (1965). Die Lyssomanidae und Salticidae-Pluridentati der Äthiopischen Region (Araneae). Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 139: 1-86. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1981a). A revision of the spider genus Hispo (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 41: 179-198. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2008). Taxonomy and natural history of a species rich assemblage of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae); a long-term study of a suburban site in Zimbabwe. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58: 167-230. -- 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
2025-09-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c