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Genus: Gedea Simon, 1902 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Gedea fungiformis (Xiao & Yin, 1991)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034514

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Described:

Distribution: China

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

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Taxonomic References

Meata fungiformis Xiao & Yin, 1991b: 150, f. 1-5 (Df) Original description

Meata fungiformis Peng et al., 1993: 123, f. 410-414 (f)

Meata fungiformis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 534, f. 304B, 327J (f)

Meata fungiformis Peng, 2020: 215, f. 148a-e (f)

References

Peng, X. J., Xie, L. P., Xiao, X. Q. & Yin, C. M. (1993). Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae). Hunan Normal University Press, 270 pp. -- Show included taxa

Peng, X. J. (2020). Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae. Science Press, Beijing, 612 pp. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Xiao, X. Q. & Yin, C. M. (1991b). A new species of the genus Meata from China (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 16: 150-152. -- 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
2020-07-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Peng, 2020
2016-09-20	Transferred to other genus after syn. gen	Maddison, 2015		Species transferred from Meata to Gedea after genus synonymy