World Spider Catalog

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

Myrmarachne foreli Lessert, 1925

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034780

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Described:

Distribution: Uganda, Angola, Botswana, Malawi, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa m (after Lessert, 1925b it was in the Durban Natural Science Museum) - (Wanless, 1978a)
Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0027893; not mentioned by Lessert, 1925b) -

Taxonomic References

Myrmarachne foreli Lessert, 1925b: 342, f. 9-10 (Dm) Original description

Myrmarachne foreli Wanless, 1978a: 85, f. 53A-L (m, Df)

Myrmarachne foreli Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 77, f. 50A-C (m)

References

Lessert, R. de (1925b). Araignées du sud de l'Afrique (suite). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 32: 323-365. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117932 -- 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. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- 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
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value