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Genus: Macopaeus Simon, 1900 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Macopaeus spinosus Simon, 1900

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034373

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar

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

Macopaeus spinosus Simon, 1900b: 381 (Df) Original description

Macopaeus spinosus Wanless, 1980a: 220, f. 1A-F (f)

Macopaeus spinosus Wanless, 1980d: 216, f. 2F

Macopaeus spinosus Prószyński, 2017b: 125, f. 54F (f)

References

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. (1900b). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44: 381-407. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1980a). A revision of the spider genus Macopaeus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 38: 219-223. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1980d). A revision of the spider genera Asemonea and Pandisus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 39(4): 213-257. -- 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
2017-09-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b