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Genus: Lystrocteisa Simon, 1884 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Lystrocteisa myrmex Simon, 1884

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034362

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Described:

Distribution: New Caledonia

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

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Lystrocteisa myrmex Simon, 1884c: 229 (Dm) Original description

Lystrocteisa myrmex Simon, 1901a: 481, f. 554, 560 (m)

Lystrocteisa myrmex Żabka, 1988: 460, f. 105-109 (m)

Lystrocteisa myrmex Patoleta & Gardzińska, 2013: 588, f. 1-26 (m, Df)

Lystrocteisa myrmex Prószyński, 2017b: 33, f. 14L, 17G (mf)

References

Patoleta, B. & Gardzińska, J. (2013). Redescription of Lystrocteisa Simon, 1884 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Caledonia. Zootaxa 3646: 587-592. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3646.5.8 -- 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

Simon, E. (1884c). Note sur le groupe des Diolenii (famille des Attidae) et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 28(C.R.): 225-231. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (1988). Salticidae (Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, III. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 41(14): 421-479. -- 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