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

Myrmarachne dundoensis Wanless, 1978

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034767

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Described:

Distribution: Angola, Kenya, Botswana

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo Regional do Dundo (MDA), Luanda-Norte, Angola m - (Wanless, 1978a)
Paratype: Museo Regional do Dundo (MDA), Luanda-Norte, Angola 1m - (Wanless, 1978a)

Taxonomic References

Myrmarachne dundoensis Wanless, 1978a: 82, f. 51A-I, 52A-E, pl. 5a-b (Dmf) Original description

Myrmarachne dundoensis Edwards & Benjamin, 2009: 16, f. 7 (m)

Myrmarachne dundoensis Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015: 555, f. 31-33 (mf)

References

Edwards, G. B. & Benjamin, S. P. (2009). A first look at the phylogeny of the Myrmarachninae, with rediscovery and redescription of the type species of Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 2309: 1-29. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2309.1.1 -- 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

Wesołowska, W. & Wiśniewski, K. (2015). New data on Belippo and Myrmarachne of Kenya (Araneae: Salticidae: Myrmarachninae). Zootaxa 3980(4): 547-561. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.4.5 -- 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
2015-07-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015
2015-07-06	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015	Old value