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Genus: Icius Simon, 1876 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Icius minimus Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041757

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Described:

Distribution: Ghana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, China?

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

Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 3f (219322) - (Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m 2f (ARTO 27979-27981) - (Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008)
Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (219316) - (Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008)

Taxonomic References

Icius minimus Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 19, f. 72-81, 207-208 (Dmf) Original description

Icius minimus Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 34, f. 22A-B (m)

Icius minimus Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025: 617, f. 17A-D (mf)

References

Haddad, C. R., Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). The jumping spiders of Mozambique (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 5560(1): 1-92. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Wawer, W. & Wesołowska, W. (2025). Jumping spiders from Ghana collected by J. Prószyński (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 75(2): 599-628. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.2.013 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Tomasiewicz, B. (2008). New species and records of Ethiopian jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 4: 3-59. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2025-06-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025
2025-06-29	Species distribution update	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025	Old value
2025-06-15	Species distribution update	Lin & Li, 2020c	Old value
2024-12-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value