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Genus: Myrmarachne MacLeay, 1839 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Myrmarachne augusta (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034733

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m (N.B.: published as lectotpye, but there is no evidence, that the original description was based on more than 1m) - (Wanless, 1978a)

Taxonomic References

Salticus augustus Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 24, pl. 1, f. 5 (Dm; not preoccupied by Thorell, 1877, see Myrmarachne angusta; f. 5a-c see Myrmarachne cowani) Original description

Myrmarachne angustiformis Simon, 1901a: 503 (superfluous replacement name) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064225]

Myrmarachne augusta Wanless, 1978a: 109, f. 70A-H (m, S of Myrmarachne angustiformis)

Myrmarachne augusta Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2019: 284, f. 1A-C, 2A-D, 3A-D (m)

References

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1892). Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(1): 1-84, pl. 1-7. -- 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

Wanless, F. R. (1978a). A revision of the spider genera Belippo and Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 33(1): 1-139. doi: 10.5962/p.28732 -- Show included taxa

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2019). Redescription of Myrmarachne augusta (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnology 18(3): 284-286. doi: 10.13156/arac.2019.18.3.284 -- 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
2019-11-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2019