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Genus: Ligdus Thorell, 1895 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Ligdus chelifer Thorell, 1895

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034240

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Described:

Distribution: Myanmar, China

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK j - (Maddison et al., 2020b)

Taxonomic References

Ligdus chelifer Thorell, 1895b: 337 (Df) Original description

Ligdus chelifer Hill et al., 2025: 11, f. 5.1-3, 6.1-4, 7.1-6, 8.1-6, 9.1-4 (mf habitus)

References

Hill, D. E., Abhijith, A. P. C., Divyashree, A. & Kumar, L. (2025). The copocrossean jumping spiders of Eugène Simon (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae: Ballini: Copocrossa, Ligdus, Mantisatta). Peckhamia 338.1: 1-34. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1895b). Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma, based upon the collection made by Eugene W. Oates and preserved in the British Museum. London, 406 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.17492 -- 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
2025-07-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Hill et al., 2025
2025-07-28	Species distribution update	Hill et al., 2025	Old value