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Genus: Messua G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Messua dentiger (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034598

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Described:

Distribution: Guatemala to Panama

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

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Taxonomic References

Metaphidippus dentiger F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 264, pl. 23, f. 11 (Dm; for the ending of the specific epithet see ICZN Article 31.2.2) Original description

Dendryphantes dentiger Petrunkevitch, 1911: 628

Metaphidippus dentiger Prószyński, 1971e: 432 (T from Dendryphantes)

Messua dentiger Maddison, 1996: 233 (T from Metaphidippus)

References

Maddison, W. P. (1996). Pelegrina Franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 154: 215-368. -- 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. (1901a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1971e). Catalogue of Salticidae (Aranei) specimens kept in major collections of the world. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 28: 367-519. -- 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]

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Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2016-12-20	Species updated		Old value	Error corrected