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Genus: Toxeus C. L. Koch, 1846 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Toxeus grossus (Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039105

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Described:

Distribution: Malaysia

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

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Taxonomic References

Myrmarachne grossa Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003: 313, f. 69-79 (Dmf) Original description

Myrmarachne grossa Edwards & Benjamin, 2009: 16, f. 7 (mf)

Toxeus grossus Prószyński, 2018b: 163, f. 22K (f, T from Myrmarachne)

References

Edmunds, M. & Prószyński, J. (2003). On a collection of Myrmarachne spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from peninsular Malaya. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 297-323. -- Show included taxa

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

Prószyński, J. (2018b). Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 16: 130-179. doi: 10.37828/em.2018.16.12 -- 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
2018-04-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018b
2018-04-27	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2018b		Species transferred from Myrmarachne to Toxeus