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Genus: Myrmapeni Prószyński, 2016 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Myrmapeni borneensis (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1907)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034742

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Described:

Distribution: China, Malaysia (Borneo)

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

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Taxonomic References

Myrmarachne borneensis Peckham & Peckham, 1907: 604 (Dm) Original description

Myrmarachne borneensis Yamasaki, 2010: 63, f. 2-7 (m)

Myrmarachne borneensis Yamasaki & Ahmad, 2013: 514, f. 10A-G (m)

Myrmapeni borneensis Prószyński, 2016: 9 (T from Myrmarachne)

References

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1907). The Attidae of Borneo. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 15(2): 603-653. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2016). Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world. Ecologica Montenegrina 7: 4-32. doi: 10.37828/em.2016.7.1 -- Show included taxa

Yamasaki, T. (2010). Redescription of two Bornean species of the genus Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica 59(2): 63-66. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.59.63 -- Show included taxa

Yamasaki, T. & Ahmad, A. H. (2013). Taxonomic study of the genus Myrmarachne of Borneo (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 3710: 501-556. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3710.6.1 -- 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
2025-06-15	Species distribution update	Lin & Li, 2020c	Old value
2016-11-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2016
2016-11-09	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2016		Species transferred from Myrmarachne to Myrmapeni