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

Martella pottsi G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034507

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Described:

Distribution: Guatemala to Brazil

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

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Taxonomic References

Martella pottsii Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 45, pl. 4, f. 2 (Dmf) Original description

Martella pottsii F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 174, pl. 11, f. 14-15 (mf)

Sarinda pottsii Petrunkevitch, 1911: 703

Martella pottsi Galiano, 1964b: 357, pl. 1, f. 4-10, pl. 2, f. 5-8, pl. 3, f. 4, 9-10 (mf, T from Sarinda)

Martella pottsi Prószyński, 2017b: 69, f. 31N (m)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1964b). Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. I. Revisión del género Martella Peckham, 1892. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 24: 353-363. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1892). Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(1): 1-84, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 89-192, pl. 6-15. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- 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
2017-09-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b