Myrmarachne ichneumon (Simon, 1886)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034800

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Described:

Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Mozambique, South Africa


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 ichneumon Simon, 1886g: 387 (Dm) Original description
Salticus ichneumon Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 17, pl. 1, f. 7 (m)
Myrmarachne ichneumon Simon, 1901a: 499
Salticus ichneumon Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 250 (Df)
Myrmarachne ichneumon Roewer, 1965: 47, f. 38, 38a (f)
Myrmarachne ichneumon Wanless, 1978a: 56, f. 31A-G, 32A-I (mf)
Myrmarachne ichneumon Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 58, f. 105-110 (mf)
References

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1892). Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(1): 1-84, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- Show included taxa

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

Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. -- 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

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2009). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50(1): 13-103. doi: 10.5733/afin.050.0102 -- 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
2024-12-30 Species distribution update Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value

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