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

Mogrus semicanus Simon, 1910

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034707

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) 1f 1j (18866–67) -

Taxonomic References

Mogrus semicanus Simon, 1910b: 217 (Df) Original description

Mogrus semicanus Prószyński, 1987: 67 (f)

Mogrus semicanus Próchniewicz, 1989: 216, f. 19-22 (f)

Mogrus semicanus Wesołowska, 2006b: 245, f. 83-86 (f)

References

Próchniewicz, M. (1989). Über die Typen von Arten der Salticidae (Araneae) aus der äthiopischen Region im Zoologischen Museum Berlin. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 65(2): 207-228. doi: 10.1002/mmnz.19890650204 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1987). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej Siedlcach, 172 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1910b). Arachnoidea: Araneae (II.). In: Schultze, L. (ed.) Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16: 175-218. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2006b). Jumping spiders from the Brandberg massif in Namibia (Araneae: Salticidae). African Entomology 14: 225-256. -- 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
2019-05-21	Species distribution update	Haddad & Marusik, 2019	Old value