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

Myrmapana brasiliensis (Mello-Leitão, 1922)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034743

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Myrmarachne brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1922, (01001); 1 m (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Myrmarachne brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1922a: 219, f. 21-22 (Dm) Original description

Myrmarachne brasiliensis Mello-Leitão, 1933a: 66, pl. 2, f. 7 (m)

Myrmarachne brasiliensis Galiano, 1969b: 113, f. 1-2, 28-29, 39, 58-60 (m)

Myrmapana brasiliensis Prószyński, 2016: 9 (T from Myrmarachne)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1969b). Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. VII. El género Myrmarachne Mac Leay, 1839, en America. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 3: 107-148. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1922a). Quelques araignées nouvelles ou peu connues du Bresil. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 91: 209-228. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1933a). Ensaio sobre as myrmarachninas do Brasil. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 9: 39-102. -- 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

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
2016-11-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2016
2016-11-09	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2016		Species transferred from Myrmarachne to Myrmapana