Mexcala caerulea (Simon, 1901)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032939

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast


Type Repository Provide information
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1m 1f 2j (19974) - (Clark, 1974)
Taxonomic References
Cosmophasis caerulea Simon, 1901c: 148 (Dm) Original description
Cosmophasis tristis Berland & Millot, 1941: 319, f. 21 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056231]
Cosmophasis caerulea Clark, 1974: 14, f. 10-11 (mf, S of Cosmophasis tristis)
Mexcala caerulea Wesołowska, 2009a: 157, f. 18-29 (mf, T from Cosmophasis)
Mexcala caerulea Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 59, f. 36A-B (f)
Mexcala caerulea Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 856, f. 45A-B (f)
References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. -- Show included taxa

Clark, D. J. (1974). Notes on Simon's types of African Salticidae. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3(1): 11-27. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901c). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45: 141-161. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2009a). A revision of the spider genus Mexcala Peckham et Peckham, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 20: 149-186. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2022). Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 841: 1-143. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Henrard, A. (2025). New data on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains, Guinea. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 75(3): 811-912. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.3.010 -- 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
2025-10-01 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025
2025-10-01 Species distribution update Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025 Old value
2022-10-16 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022

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