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Genus: Paramaevia Barnes, 1955 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Paramaevia poultoni (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034387

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Described:

Distribution: USA

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

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Taxonomic References

Maevia poultonii Peckham & Peckham, 1901a: 344, pl. 25, f. 15, pl. 26, f. 3 (Dmf) Original description

Plexippus vittatus Banks, 1906b: 100, pl. 2, f. 6 (f) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066226]

Maevia poultonii Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 451, pl. 49, f. 8-8b (mf, S of Plexippus vittatus)

Maevia poultoni Barnes, 1955: 7, f. 10-12 (mf)

Paramaevia poultoni Barnes, 1958: 49 (T from Maevia)

Paramaevia poultoni Prószyński, 2017b: 25, f. 10J (mf, T from Maevia)

References

Banks, N. (1906b). Descriptions of new American spiders. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 7: 94-100. -- Show included taxa

Barnes, R. D. (1955). North American jumping spiders of the genus Maevia. American Museum Novitates 1746: 1-13. -- Show included taxa

Barnes, R. D. (1958). North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Salticidae). American Museum Novitates 1867: 1-50. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1901a). Spiders of the Phidippus group of the family Attidae. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 13: 282-358. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1909). Revision of the Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 16(1, 5): 355-646, pl. 29-51. -- 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

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
2017-09-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-20	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2017b		Species transferred from Maevia to Paramaevia