World Spider Catalog

Genus: Martella G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Martella gandu Galiano, 1996

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034501

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Described:

Distribution: Ecuador, Brazil

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

Type Repository Provide information

Allotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Martella gandu Galiano, 1996, (02200); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Martella gandu Galiano, 1996, (02199); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Paratype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Martella gandu Galiano, 1996, (02201); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Martella gandu Galiano, 1996c: 109, f. 9-14, 23 (Dmf) Original description

Martella gandu Macías-Tulcán, Galvis & Molina-Moreira, 2023: 860, f. 6G-H (f)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1996c). Formiciform Salticidae (Araneae). Two new combinations and four new species of the genera Martella and Sarinda. Miscellanea Zoologica 19: 105-115. -- Show included taxa

Macías-Tulcán, M., Galvis, W. & Molina-Moreira, N. (2023). New species and records of jumping spiders from Ecuador (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnology 19(5): 852-861. doi: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.852 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2023-07-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Macías-Tulcán, Galvis & Molina-Moreira, 2023
2023-07-02	Species distribution update	Macías-Tulcán, Galvis & Molina-Moreira, 2023	Old value