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

Myrmarachne eumenes (Simon, 1900)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034776

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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: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 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 eumenes Simon, 1900b: 405 (Dm) Original description

Myrmarachne eumenes Simon, 1901a: 499, f. 587-589 (m)

Myrmarachne eumenes Wanless, 1978a: 114, f. 73A-K, 74A-E, pl. 2b (m, Df)

References

Simon, E. (1900b). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44: 381-407. -- 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

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]

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