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Genus: Mexcala G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1902 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Mexcala caerulea Simon, 1901

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032939

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Described:

Distribution: Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast

External Resources*: Salticidae Database Prószyński (2016) | GBIF

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Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1m 1f 2j (19974) - (Clark, 1974)

Taxonomic References

Cosmophasis caerulea Simon, 1901c: 148 (Dm) Original description

Cosmophasis tristis Berland & Millot, 1941: 319, f. 21 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056231]

Cosmophasis caerulea Clark, 1974: 14, f. 10-11 (mf, S of Cosmophasis tristis)

Mexcala caerulea Wesołowska, 2009a: 157, f. 18-29 (mf, T from Cosmophasis)

Mexcala caerulea Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 59, f. 36A-B (f)

References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. -- Show included taxa

Clark, D. J. (1974). Notes on Simon's types of African Salticidae. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3(1): 11-27. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901c). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45: 141-161. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2009a). A revision of the spider genus Mexcala Peckham et Peckham, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 20: 149-186. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2022). Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 841: 1-143. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-10-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022