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

Massagris honesta Wesołowska, 1993

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034509

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Described:

Distribution: Central African Rep., South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa m (3146) - (Wesołowska, 1993c)
Paratype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa 8m (3184, 4346, 5693, 12175, 12449, 13357, 13367, 13415) - (Wesołowska, 1993c)
Holotype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa f (3523) of Massagris regina - (Wesołowska, 1993c)
Paratype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa 7f (775, 3066, 3536, 4411, 8539, 9196, 12319) of Massagris regina - (Wesołowska, 1993c)

Taxonomic References

Massagris honesta Wesołowska, 1993c: 140, f. 18-20 (Dm) Original description

Massagris regina Wesołowska, 1993c: 138, f. 15-17 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034511]

Massagris honesta Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013: 210, f. 19, 90-91, 107-113 (mf, S of Massagris regina)

Massagris honesta Prószyński, 2017b: 107, f. 47L (mf)

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

Wesołowska, W. (1993c). A revision of the spider genus Massagris Simon, 1900 (Araneae, Salticidae). Genus 4(2): 133-141. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2013). New data on the jumping spiders of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). African Invertebrates 54(1): 177-240. doi: 10.5733/afin.054.0111 -- 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
2026-01-12	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026	Old value
2018-12-11	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Massagris contortuplicata Wesolowska & Haddad, 2013
2017-09-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b