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Genus: Gastromicans Mello-Leitão, 1917 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Gastromicans australis (Badcock, 1932)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034684

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Argentina

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f (1932.9.2.77) - (Sherwood, Nadal & Pett, 2023)

Taxonomic References

Mirandia australis Badcock, 1932: 47, f. 39 (Df) Original description

Gastromicans australis Sherwood, Nadal & Pett, 2023: 3, f. 3-12 (f, T from Mirandia)

References

Badcock, H. D. (1932). Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926–7, supported by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 38(257): 1-48. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb00987.x -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Nadal, M. F. & Pett, B. L. (2023). One step forward and two steps back: on three jumping spiders described by H. D. Badcock deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, and two species newly recorded for Argentina (Araneae: Salticidae). Peckhamia 298.1: 1-9. -- 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
2023-06-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood, Nadal & Pett, 2023
2023-06-04	Species transferred to new genus	Sherwood, Nadal & Pett, 2023		Species transferred from Mirandia to Gastromicans
2023-06-04	Species distribution update	Sherwood, Nadal & Pett, 2023	Old value