Macaroeris diligens (Blackwall, 1867)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034368

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Described:

Distribution: Madeira. Introduced to Azores


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK m (absent) - (Logunov & Schäfer, 2025)
  • Neotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK m - (Logunov & Schäfer, 2025)
Taxonomic References
Salticus diligens Blackwall, 1867b: 204 (Dm) Original description
Salticus vigilans Blackwall, 1867b: 207 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063968]
Marpessa ornata Thorell, 1875c: 181 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:052809]
Marpissa ornata Warburton, 1892: 218, pl. 14, f. 4-6 (f)
Dendryphantes diligens Kulczyński, 1899: 436, pl. 9, f. 128, 132, 134-135, 140-141, 144-145 (mf, T from Salticus, S of Marpissa ornata)
Dendryphantes diligens Simon, 1901a: 625 (S of Salticus vigilans)
Dendryphantes diligens Denis, 1962a: 53, f. 41-42, 48 (mf, removed from S of Dendryphantes nidicolens, rejecting Simon, 1937: 1263)
Macaroeris diligens Wunderlich, 1992a: 517, f. 838-841 (mf, T from Dendryphantes)
Macaroeris diligens Logunov & Schäfer, 2025: 379, f. 111-141 (mf)
References

Blackwall, J. (1867b). Notes on spiders, with descriptions of several species supposed to be new to arachnologists. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3) 20(117): 202-213. doi: 10.1080/00222936708694114 -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1962a). Les araignées de l'archipel de Madère (Mission du Professeur Vandel). Publicações do Instituto Zoologia Doutor Augusto Nobre 79: 9-118, pl. 1-12. -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1899). Arachnoidea opera Rev. E. Schmitz collecta in insulis Maderianis et in insulis Selvages dictis. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 36: 319-461, pl. 6-9. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. & Schäfer, M. (2025). A review of the jumping spider genus Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992 (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantini). Arachnology 20(3): 364-409. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.3.7 -- 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

Thorell, T. (1875c). Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13(5): 1-204. -- Show included taxa

Warburton, C. (1892). Spiders from Madeira. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 10(57): 216-228, pl. 14. doi: 10.1080/00222939208677398 -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1992a). Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1-619. -- 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
2025-11-02 New taxonomic reference entry Logunov & Schäfer, 2025
2025-11-02 Species distribution update Logunov & Schäfer, 2025 Old value
2022-12-15 Species distribution update Old value
2021-02-07 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Old value
2021-02-07 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Old value

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