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Genus: Mexcala G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1902 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Mexcala nigrocyanea (Simon, 1886)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032962

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Described:

Distribution: Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia

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

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Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (7484) - (Clark, 1974)

Taxonomic References

Cyllobelus nigro-cyaneus Simon, 1886g: 390 (Df) Original description

Cosmophasis nigrocyanea Simon, 1901a: 548

Cosmophasis cincta Denis, 1947a: 67, pl. 4, f. 9 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056230]

Cosmophasis nigrocyanea Clark, 1974: 14, f. 16-17 (S of Cosmophasis cincta)

Mexcala nigrocyanea Wesołowska, 2009a: 171, f. 80-83 (f, T from Cosmophasis)

References

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

Denis, J. (1947a). Results of the Armstrong College expedition to Siwa Oasis (Libyan desert), 1935. Spiders [Araneae]. Bulletin de la Société Fouad 1^er d'Entomologie 31: 17-103, pl. 1-6. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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

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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

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