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Genus: Hypaeus Simon, 1900 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Hypaeus porcatus (Taczanowski, 1871)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034077

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Described:

Distribution: French Guiana, Brazil

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland m - (Borges & Ruiz, 2026)

Taxonomic References

Attus porcatus Taczanowski, 1871: 53, pl. 4, f. 5 (Dm) Original description

Hypaeus porcatus Galiano, 1968c: 328, f. 80-85 (m)

Hypaeus porcatus Borges & Ruiz, 2026: 8, f. 27-33, 44-45, 115-116, 119, 129-130, 141, 147 (m, Df)

References

Borges, J. P. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2026). On species groups in the jumping spider genus Hypaeus Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycini), with a revision of the H. porcatus species group. Zootaxa 5814(1): 1-42. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5814.1.1 [[Zoobank: 81EA025D-4CB5-46CE-AA94-B7FB3309B70E]] -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1968c). Revision de los géneros Acragas, Amycus, Encolpius, Hypaeus, Mago y Noegus (Salticidae, Araneae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 2: 267-360. -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1871). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 8: 32-132, pl. 3-4. -- 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
2026-05-20	First description of female	Borges & Ruiz, 2026
2026-05-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Borges & Ruiz, 2026
2026-05-20	Species distribution update	Borges & Ruiz, 2026	Old value
2025-10-16	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Hypaeus taczanowskii (Mello-Leitão, 1948)
2020-05-26	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Hypaeus taczanowskii (Mello-Leitão, 1948)