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Genus: Mogrus Simon, 1882 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Mogrus mathisi (Berland & Millot, 1941)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035513

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Described:

Distribution: Senegal, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Yemen, Saudi Arabia

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019) Mogrus dillae Prószyński, 1989, 1 f (NMB-ARAN-02382 a) -
Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France of Philaeus senilis - (Prószyński, 1971e)

Taxonomic References

Philaeus mathisi Berland & Millot, 1941: 341, f. 46 (Dm) Original description

Philaeus senilis Denis, 1955b: 126, f. 26-28 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035517]

Philaeus senilis Prószyński, 1984a: 110 (mf)

Philaeus mathisi Prószyński, 1984a: 110 (m)

Mogrus dillae Prószyński, 1989a: 40, f. 18-20 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034691]

Mogrus dillae Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994: 56, f. 115-116 (f)

Mogrus dillae Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 70, f. 185-187 (f)

Mogrus mathisi Wesołowska, 2003b: 426, f. 1-10 (mf, T from Philaeus, S of Mogrus dillae and Philaeus senilis)

Mogrus mathisi Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007: 235, f. 131-134 (mf)

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

Denis, J. (1955b). Contribution à l'étude de l'Aïr (Mission L. Chopard et A. Villiers). Araignées. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire 17(A): 99-146. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1989a). Salticidae (Araneae) of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia 10: 31-64. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (1994). The jumping spiders (Salticidae, Araneae) of Yemen. Yemeni-German Plant Protection Project Sana'a, 86 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2000). Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 13(1): 11-127. doi: 10.1080/03946975.2000.10531126 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2003b). A redescription of Mogrus mathisi (Berland et Millot, 1941) and its synonyms (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 14: 425-430. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (2007). Additions to the knowledge of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 23: 189-269. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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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