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

Myrmarachne giltayi Roewer, 1965

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034791

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Described:

Distribution: DR Congo, Kenya, Angola

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

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Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (5080) - (Roewer, 1965)

Taxonomic References

Myrmarachne giltayi Roewer, 1965: 52, f. 45 (Dm) Original description

Myrmarachne giltayi Wanless, 1978a: 36, f. 14A-B, F, H, 15A, F-G, 16D-F, H (m)

Myrmarachne giltayi Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015: 556, f. 34-38 (Df, m)

References

Roewer, C. F. (1965). Die Lyssomanidae und Salticidae-Pluridentati der Äthiopischen Region (Araneae). Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 139: 1-86. -- 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	First description of female	Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015	Old value