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Genus: Langona Simon, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Langona aperta (Denis, 1958)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034180

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Described:

Distribution: Iran, Afghanistan, India

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Natural History Museum of Denmark (NHMD), Copenhagen = Zoological Museum of Natural History, University of Copenhagen (ZMUC/ZMK), Denmark f - (Denis, 1958b)

Taxonomic References

Aelurillus apertus Denis, 1958b: 110, f. 41 (Df) Original description

Langona aperta Hęciak & Prószyński, 1983: 229 (Tf from Aelurillus)

Langona aperta Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005: 220, f. 1-7 (f, Dm)

Langona aperta Mirshamsi et al., 2013: 118, f. 1 (f)

Langona aperta Logunov, 2021b: 824, f. 15-22 (m)

References

Denis, J. (1958b). Araignées (Araneidea) de l'Afghanistan. I. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 120: 81-120. -- Show included taxa

Hęciak, S. & Prószyński, J. (1983). Remarks on Langona Simon (Araneae, Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 37: 207-233. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. & Zamanpoore, M. (2005). Salticidae (Araneae) of Afghanistan: an annotated check-list, with descriptions of four new species and three new synonymies. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13(6): 217-232. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (2021b). Further notes on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Afghanistan. Arachnology 18(8): 821-828. doi: 10.13156/arac.2021.18.8.821 -- Show included taxa

Mirshamsi, O., Shayestehfar, A., Musavi, S. & Hamta, A. (2013). New data on the jumping spiders from northeast of Iran (Aranei: Salticidae). Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 9(2): 117-123. -- 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
2022-01-11	Species distribution update		Old value
2021-07-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov, 2021b
2014-06-25	Species distribution update	Mirshamsi et al., 2013	Old value
2014-06-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Mirshamsi et al., 2013