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Genus: Leptathamas Balogh, 1980 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Leptathamas paradoxus Balogh, 1980

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034228

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Described:

Distribution: New Guinea

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

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Taxonomic References

Leptathamas paradoxus Balogh, 1980c: 29, f. 1-6 (Df) Original description

Leptathamas paradoxus Szűts, 2003c: 47, f. 9-15, 25, 28, 31, 34, 37 (f, Dm)

Leptathamas paradoxus Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 67, f. 364-371, 820-821 (mf)

Leptathamas paradoxus Prószyński, 2017b: 77, f. 33K (mf)

References

Balogh, P. (1980c). Studies on the Papuan Attidae (Araneae): Leptathamas paradoxus gen. et sp. n. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 41(33, 1): 29-31. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Szűts, T. (2003c). On remarkable jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Papua New Guinea. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 64: 41-57. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. X. & Maddison, W. P. (2015). Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny. Zootaxa 3938(1): 1-147. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1 -- 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
2017-09-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2015-04-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang & Maddison, 2015