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Genus: Metaphidippus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Metaphidippus laetabilis (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034642

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Described:

Distribution: Panama

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

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Taxonomic References

Dendryphantes laetabilis Peckham & Peckham, 1896: 51, pl. 4, f. 6 (Dm) Original description

Metaphidippus laetabilis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 266, pl. 24, f. 3 (m)

Metaphidippus laetabilis Chickering, 1946: 297, f. 255-257 (m)

Metaphidippus laetabilis Prószyński, 1971e: 433 (T from Dendryphantes)

References

Chickering, A. M. (1946). The Salticidae of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 97: 1-474. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1896). Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 3: 1-101, pl. 1-7. -- 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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